Subject: Pine wish-list...

From: [email-masked] (Corey Lawson)
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 94 16:06:45 -0800

One thing I've noticed that annoys me...
the behavior of TAB and moving through folders.  The behavior of it now is that
it stops at the last folder in the list.  To go back, one must L to list
folders and select a folder that way.  Why not make it so that either
you can SHIFT+TAB to move back through the folder list or so that TAB will
wrap back to the first folder in the list?

-Corey Lawson
[email-masked]

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 1994 13:22:05 -0800 (PST)

Corey,

This problem is on the list for consideration.  SHIFT+TAB won't work 
because there is no consistent definition for it across different 
keyboards.  

Thanks for the request!

--DLM

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From: Mr Brian M Bullen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 12:55:16 +0100 (BST)

> wrap back to the first folder in the list?

This sounds sensible - but I have an alternative.
Though I like the multi item per line display of folder names (since
I have loads of folders) I think it confuses the interface (and
anyway I should be using hierarchical folders to impose order on my
mailboxes).

Where there is a list of items to choose from, would it not be more 
consistent to have a vertical list, with the DOWN_ARROW and UP_ARROW keys
to  move down and up the list (with wrap around at top and bottom).

One could then add RIGHT and LEFT arrow
(as in the unix character WWW lynx command, and in usenet news TIN), i.e.

	RIGHT_ARROW	- activate current select on a list
	LEFT_ARROW	- back to previous menu

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From: Keith Christopher <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 10:01:09 -0500 (EST)

I have several filters setup to go to other folders (this being one of 
them) and I was thinking that if a TAB will take me to the next folder, 
why not have backTAB take me to the previous one ?

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From: Chris Garrigues <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 11:05:41 -0600 (CST)

> 	LEFT_ARROW	- back to previous menu

Funny, the arrow keys do this for me already.

But, on the TAB front, when I'm reading mail, I have my messages sorted 
by the Date header rather than by the time received.  This means that 
often new messages come in which are above my current position, so 
TABbing doesn't bring me to the new message.  It would be nice if TAB 
were to wrap.  I'd also like a keystroke which would "delete and skip to 
next unread message".

Chris

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 09:14:49 -0800 (PST)

Keith,

Not all keyboards (e.g. my X-term) have a backTAB key!  It would be nice 
to use, but unless pretty much everyone has the key, we can't use it :(

Thanks for the suggestion!

--DLM

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From: Corey Lawson <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 16:04:36 -0800 (PST)

Or, what about something along the lines of UWIN?
L gets you into a display sort of like this:

Local folders   ----->  Work
IMAP1			Access-l----->	Johnvon
IMAP2					BCNN
...

where using the right-arrow command (either key or emacs-ish) moves you
to the right into heirarchical local folders... and left-arrow command
moves you back one level, and up- and down-arrow work intuitively.

-Corey Lawson

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