On Fri, 16 May 2008, Les Mikesell wrote: > I'm not sure I've ever seen the words 'easy' and 'pine' used > in the same sentence before. Pine has to have the most > counterintuitive interface known to man. > I usually hold the shift key down while using the down-arrow > to move over the parts to remove which will select/highlight > it, hit delete at the end of the irrelevant part, arrow on > down past the relevant context to add my response below it, > repeating if there is more than one section continuing in > the conversation. 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. - Russ herrold