Subject: Various suggestions for PINE

From: [email-masked] (Stephen White)
Date: 20 Jul 1994 00:24:32 +0930

Just a collection of small nits:

1) pico has an inverse "." on the top line; could this be removed?

2) Could pine have an option to turn off the menus? My users say that 
it's great for the first week, but then they want more screen space.

3) Several of my users don't like "pico". They prefer "joe". Could there 
be an option to go straight into the alternate editor after filling out 
the headers?

4) When suspending pine with ^Z, it sends a stop signal to all processes 
on that group (with "kill(0, SIGSTOP);" in pine/os.c). This causes a 
problem when pine isn't run from the main process.

Perhaps "kill(getpid(), SIGSTOP);" would be better, since then the
fork()/wait() in the calling program can then handle it however it
pleases. Currently, the (in my case) menu program thinks it was asked to
stop, and even if I get the menu program to ignore this signal, bash still
gets it and stops anyway.

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From: [email-masked] (Dean Martineau)
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 1994 01:22:32 GMT

It would be very handy to be able to build mailing lists from nicknames 
in the address book.  When I tried this it didn't work, and I had to 
recopy the addresses for the mailing list even though they were already 
elsewhere in the address book.
dean martineau