-=> James Bradley wrote to All <=-

 JB> I'm wondering if there is a general preference to a Linux editor
 JB> while in MultiMail?

Yes, it's the line that says:

 editor:

in ~/.mmailrc.

 JB> emacs is doing the job, but I'm more used to DOS's Q-edit. Anythig 
 JB> closer to that? Please: vi, and vim are not even on my radar.

Try pico. Also, a lot of people like joe.

 JB> Mostly, I can't seem to find the docs. I installed from an ELF
 JB> version.

You mean mm-linux-i386elf.gz, right? Did you see what it says above that on
the web page?

  Note that if you want the documentation, you'll also need the source 
  archive; these are only the binaries.

 JB> 2.) When spawning the editor, MM shows "Unrecognized keyword: $"

That means there's something bogus in the .mmailrc file.

 JB> It only seems to appear in an X-terminal,

No, if it's on one, it's on the other. It just goes by too fast to see on 
the console.

 JB> but when I run in the console, it does the funkey ANSII character
 JB> shift, with sporatic "?" marks all over. As an aside; how would one
 JB> fix that?

 setfont default8x16

For some reason it's not actually the default, at least in my distro, nor
I'm guessing in yours. To make the change permanent, you'd have to do
something like add that command to /etc/rc.d/rc.local.

 JB> 3.) Read Markers don't seem to be saved. "zip -jkq" is the default
 JB> compression, Permission are likely all wonky, as I mentioned I'm quite
 JB> new to Linux.

The only thing I can think of is, do you in fact have "zip" installed? I
can imagine a distro including unzip but not zip, at least by default.

 JB> 4.) I've only run MM as root so far, but am a little foggy about how to
 JB> run it as a normal user. Shouldn't the mmail directory go in something
 JB> like /usr/share or some-such?

Hell no. The idea of separate users is for each user to have separate data.  
You don't run selected apps as a normal user; you run everything as a
normal user, and use root only when absolutely necessary. So, each user has
a "home directory" (typically /home/username on a Linux system, except for
root, who's in /root), and their individual files go there.

In Unix, MultiMail uses $HOME/mmail for its data (i.e., typically 
/home/username/mmail), and $HOME/.mmailrc for its settings, unless told 
otherwise.

 JB> Like I say, I'm trying to read the DOS docs when the hip allows. These
 JB> seem to be augmented *NIX manuals to satisfy DOS installs?

Yes. MultiMail is originally a Linux program. The Unix-formatted docs are 
in the source code archive.

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