Subject: 2 items for the wish list

From: Erik Lawaetz <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1993 11:38:44 +0100 (MET)

1. I like to filter my mail into multiple incoming folders.
   Contrary to elm, pine keeps the empty folders, and consequently
   one cannot tell by the mere existance of a folder if new mail has 
   arrived, and one has to enter the folders.
   EAN for instance has the ability to show how many messages a folder 
   contains, and how many are unread/new.
   I know this requires checking out the folders, and maybe it will slow 
   down things too much?

2. When I do cut and paste in "brokenwindows" (OW 2.0) from one shelltool 
   window to the one running pine I'd like keep the structure of the data 
   I cut from the other window. pico however insists on making it a 
   pretty text. Any way out? Should I just RTFM?

--Erik

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1993 08:39:24 -0700 (PDT)

>    I know this requires checking out the folders, and maybe it will slow 
The biggest problem with keeping track of all the incoming folders is 
that you have to keep them open, and with the default berkeley format 
folders, that means keeping them in memory.  In addition there is the 
extra overhead of checking each one for new mail.  We would like to 
display a count, or at least an indication of new mail, but have not yet 
figured out a good way to do so.

>    pretty text. Any way out? Should I just RTFM?
Pico has no way to tell that a "paste" operation is anything other than a 
sequence of characters.  Consequentially, word wrap occurs just as if you 
were typing.
 
> --Erik

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