Re: utf-8 subject

On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Lucio Chiappetti wrote:

> As a pine user since ages, I moved to alpine (1.0 + Eduardo Chappa's patches) 
> at the beginning of this year and noticed no drawbacks, some useful new 
> features and a definite speed improvement in some cases.
>
> And the transition does not need to be abrupt and irreversible. I built 
> alpine offline from /usr/bin or /usr/local, somewhere under my home, and 
> simply aliases the invocation of pine to alpine in my mail wrapper script.
>
> I can revert to pine at any time just commenting out that line, or invoking 
> it directly.

Just a little warning in case people want to do this: there are a few 
things that you can configure in alpine that will disrupt pine if you 
revert using the same config file. Probably the most noticeable are color 
configuration and new tokens in the index format. That is, if you use the 
new tokens in alpine they won't work when you revert to pine and if you 
use the fancier colors in alpine they won't work right in pine. You could, 
of course, make a copy of your .pinerc before changing things in alpine 
but then you'd lose the changes that you do want when reverting. If your 
experience is anything like ours you won't want to revert, anyway.

Steve


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