ROTD (Rant Of The Day): patches

[Dimitrie O. Paun]

On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Francois Gouget wrote:

>    Another issue which is dear to Alexandre :-)

I wonder why?... :)
 
>    When I send a patch with netscape and then read the email in pine, I
> see the email and the attachement right below it. When I send a patch
> with pine, I have to use V, select the attachement and pine forks an
> external pager (more/less/whatever).  That's fine too but slightly less
> practical.

BTW, how do you fork the external pager? 

>    So if anyone has tips for configuring pine so that it makes nicer
> attachements...

Me too! :) That is, I would like to know as well. 

I guess you can insert the patch in the body of the message using:
  ^R - from Pico to "Read File"
or
  ^_ - to go to the alternate editor (vi) and do the dirty deed in there.

--
Dimi.