Subject: Re: cut text "vanishes" between messages

From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1993 15:37:51 -0800 (PST)

Mike,

Sorry about the very slow response.  The reason that this "feature" was 
removed is that it was unexpected bahavior that was causing frustration 
for novice users.  A workaround is to export the first message to a file, 
then read it into the reply.  To improve upon this, a future version of 
Pine will allow you to mark several messages and reply to all of them as 
a group, including all the messages in the reply!

Thanks for the report!

--DLM

|\ |  |\/|  David L. Miller    [email-masked]  (206) 685-6240
|/ |_ |  |  Software Engineer, Pine Development Team   (206) 685-4045 (FAX)
University of Washington, Networks & Distributed Computing
4545 15th Ave NE, Seattle WA 98105, USA

On Thu, 7 Oct 1993, Mike Stok wrote:

> One of my users has just noticed that the way in which cut text is 
> handled between 3.07 and 3.85 is different.
> 
> He used to be able to combine the contents of more than one message by, 
> for example:
> 
>   starting to forward <message 1>, go into the body, cut the exciting 
>   lines.
> 
>   cancel the forward of <message 1>
> 
>   reply to <message 2>, go into its body, uncut the lines which were 
>   cut from <message 1>
> 
> This allowed him to quote from a number of messages even from a VT100 or 
> similar terminal where the luxury of a window system provided cut & paste 
> facility wasn't provided.
> 
> Is there any chance of the "old" behaviour slipping back into 3.86, or is
> there some workaround that I have missed? 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mike
> 
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