ISP mania -- can't change editor

On Jan 17, 5:10, Ward Donald Griffiths III wrote: One of the features of pine is that there can be several configuration files, including a system-wide one that contains settings which a user can override in ~/.pinerc, and a separate system-wide one which ~/.pinerc *won't* override. The intent is that a sysadmin can set defaults in the first (usually /usr/local/lib/pine.conf), and set fixed values in the second (usually /usr/local/lib/pine.conf.fixed) -- the sorts of things that users shouldn't meddle with, like the name of the server, the mail domain, the operating-dir (which restricts the part of the file structure users can access) or whether they're allowed to forge cancel messages. It sounds like your ISP has a somewhat overzealous sysadmin; perhaps they just copied every setting into pine.conf.fixed. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Dept. of Computer Science University of York