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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