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Customizing the message display layout in pine

I’ve been using pine for a long time now — I remember it was the default mail client available at my university‘s computer sciencie department. If I remember correctly, I think it was the first program I ever used in a UNIX system (back in 96?).

In any case, after more than a decade using this program, I just found out that you can customize the display of the message list within a folder. I noticed that the list of messages looked different while browsing the Wikipedia entry for Alpine.

My personal setting now is:

index-format=STATUS MSGNO SMARTTIME FROMORTO(33%) SIZE SUBJECT(67%)

If you go into the configuration section, search for the “index-format” entry (^W index-format), and then hit ? to go to the online help entry, you will get access to all of the documentation available for this. Very cool stuff.

Random interesting links

  • Bart Jansens documents his experiments with Varnish, a reverse proxy server that is making the rounds as of late. Varnish really needs better documentation.
  • Pragmatic Programmer Screencasts – now with Erlang screencasts that should make it grokking this language a bit easier for newbies. I saw this a few weeks ago, and I can’t remember exactly, but I think no new screencasts have been published since?
  • Google Doctype (kind of old news by now) – a new effort to build an online reference library by web developers for web developers. Do we really need another resource for web development articles?
  • Writing Apache’s logs to MySQL – very old article, but still nice for someone that is not interested on deciphering Apache’s documentation.
  • Profiling LAMP Applications with Apache’s Blackbox Logs – same for this one; nice overview of what’s possible with mod_logio

Random interesting links

Random interesting links

Random interesting links

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