Re: [MLUG] Alpine's Like Pine: It's Not Elm

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Fri, 21 Dec 2007, Russell Horn wrote:

> I remember we had some discussion about MUA's a month or so ago.
>
> Some folk might be interested in the story running now on /. that the 
> University of Washington have released Alpine 1.0 which is a ground up 
> rewrite of pine.
>
> http://www.washington.edu/alpine/
>
> One of the arguments given against pine was that it is not FOSS. While 
> the source code was available, there were restrictions on 
> redistribution. That has been resolved with Alpine, which is licensed 
> under the Apache License 2.0


I wasn't sure at first what a "ground up" rewrite was, but now I get it! 
(I was thinking it had been tossed into a meat grinder.)

Anyway, this is absolutely fantastic news for me because I never did stop 
using pine and now I can imagine that Alpine will be better and it will 
improve more quickly.  There are a few features that many people will 
probably want that I bet will become available either as add-ons or 
command-line options.  It would be nice to integrate emacs into the system 
as a replacement for pico (not as "alternate editor" which can already be 
done) and to thereby make the system more fully emacs-compatible 
keystroke-wise.  I want ctrl-Y to "yank" text insted of ctrl-U, which is 
Pine's current behavior.  That one gets me pretty often.

After I've tried Alpine, I'll let you know what I think.

Mike

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