[CentOS] OT: Top Posting

Paul Heinlein heinlein at madboa.com
Fri May 16 20:42:42 UTC 2008


On Fri, 16 May 2008, R P Herrold wrote:

> There's the problem, Les !! -- the pine (now, alpine) editor, pico, 
> does not work that way.  Fortunately, [al]pine will honor an EDITOR 
> environment variable for those preferring a different editor, so one 
> can go nuts, and even, say, use emacs.

I love alpine. It works with UTF-8 so you can read spam in the 
original Hebrew or Chinese, but it's text-only so you avoid NSFW 
images. You get foreign language practice in an HR-acceptable manner. 
Woohoo!

-- 
Paul Heinlein <> heinlein at madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/



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