Subject: Re: Things for 3.88?

From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1993 22:35:46 -0800 (PST)

Dave,

The initial-keystroke-list is a fairly new feature and still needs some 
polish as you have found.  It should continue to improve over the next 
several versions.

We will have a more appropriate 'new pine version' message for Pine 3.88.

Thanks for the report!

--DLM

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On Fri, 29 Oct 1993, Dave King wrote:

> initial-keystroke-list
> ----------------------
> When setting initial-keystroke in .pinerc to present mail sorted by arrival 
> (reversed to get new messages at top of index) as in:
>  
> initial-keystroke-list=i,$,r
> 
> Gives rise to the following `error' :
> 
> Can't mix characters and function keys in
> "initial-keystroke-list", skipping.
> 
> If, however, the `$' is quoted with `\' as in
> 
> initial-keystroke-list=i,\$,r
> 
> Pine behaves as expected.
> 
> 
> New version message
> -------------------
> It would be helpful to reserve the `new pine version' welcome message for
> versions of Pine that are FUNCTIONALLY different from previous versions
> because displaying this message for `maintenance' releases may lead to
> confusion, i.e. a user asking "What's new in this version?".
> 
> 
> 
> Dave
> 
> PS I forgot to mention the above points are Pine 3.87 on DYNIX/ptx 2.0.4,
> but I suspect are generic. 
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