Re: .pinerc maintenance

Steve Thompson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.pine.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, Matt Ackeret wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, Steve Hubert wrote:
> > On Thu, 13 Apr 2006, Steve Thompson wrote:
> >> Wishlist: it would be really useful if pine had the ability to edit a
> >> .pinerc file entirely from the command line (ie from within a script),
> ...
> > Normally, any changes you make in pine in the Setup/Config screen should be
> > saved permanently. Are you getting any error messages? Maybe your pinerc file
> > is not writable, or maybe the directory it is located in is not writable?
>
> It sounds to me like he wanted for some reason to be able to edit a
> different pinerc *outside* of a pine session.

What I would like to do is combine the functionality of:

	# pine -pinerc <file>	# create a new .pinerc

with:

	# pine -option=value	# set option to value

so that the new .pinerc file that is created has the changed option.

Steve
_______________________________________________
Pine-info mailing list
[email protected]
http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/pine-info
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.