[ale] Updated Linux but new Pine doesn't know keystokes!

John Mills johnmills at speakeasy.net
Mon Feb 25 11:49:11 EST 2008


Alex -

Thanks for the excellent suggestions. I'll start with them.

On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Alex LeDonne wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 9:15 AM, John Mills <johnmills at speakeasy.net> wrote:

>>  Unless I find a config setting, the simplest may be to rebuild from source
>>  and see how that one acts.

> Try this, as it may "unmuck" your .pinerc (in case there were subtle changes):
>
> Make sure your .pinerc has correct (user-writable) permissions
> In settings, uncheck enable-aggregate-command-set
> Quit pine
> Start pine
> In settings, check enable-aggregate-command-set

> I don't know what ':' is for, but I know that ';' is part of the
> aggregate command set, so if unsetting and resetting that option
> doesn't work, something else is amiss.

> You might also try searching for that setting in your .pinerc,
> deleting it there, and setting it again from pine.

> Failing that, try renaming your .pinerc (maybe to old.pinerc), start
> pine with default settings, and enable the option, and see if that
> works. This would determine if something else might be weird in your
> .pinerc and causing issues.

> These are all easier than rebuilding, I think. :)


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