Subject: Pico Request

From: "Robert A. Hayden" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1993 12:02:45 -0500 (CDT)

Here's a request I have for pico.

Blocking.

I use my account (and thus pine et al) over a relatively slow 9600 baud
modem.  One of the most annoying things is when I want to delete several
lines and every time I do a ^K it will delete the line and then rewrite
the whole screen.

If there was a way to block a section and then delete all of the blocked
material, it would significantly reduce the amount of screen rewrite and
headaches.

I'd think a singly key sequence that toggled blocking on/off would do the
trick, in order to keep it simple.

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From: "Jason R. Thorpe" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1993 20:45:45 -0700 (PDT)

> lines and every time I do a ^K it will delete the line and then rewrite

Yeah...A VERY cool idea...I'd like to see this too, cause when I'm not in
my office, I have to dial in at 2400 or sometimes 1200 (AARGH!) baud!

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From: Ian Dunkin <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1993 10:33:04 +0100 (BST)

> my office, I have to dial in at 2400 or sometimes 1200 (AARGH!) baud!

Since pico is a cut-down MicroEMACS, which itself does provide this
functionality (set-mark, kill-region), presumably it was actually turned
_off_ in pico? 

    I.