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Re: how to type accents with pine in a msg?



( Re Message From: Martin Alonso Soto Jacome )
> 
> Hi Carlos:
> 
> carlos@riglos.fisica.ufpr.br said:
> > How is it possible to type accents in a mail msg. composed with pine? 
> > I saw no mention of 8bit composing in the man page, docs and config 
> > files. 
> 
> Is far as I know, there's no way to type accents with pine's built in editor.  
> I guess you have to use an external editor like emacs, for example.  It does a 
> prety good job with accents, but may be quite slow to start up.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> M. S.
> ------------
> Martin A. Soto J.                           Profesor

Even simpler is to change the "pine" editor to vim, and enable vim's
digraph support. Then you can enter all the accented charracters in
ISO-8859-1 by typing Ctrl-V followed by two other characaters.

E.g. "e-acute" is "^Ve'".

Ted.                                    (Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk)


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