Subject: Wanted: copy msg replied-to into buffer

From: [email-masked] (Holger Lillqvist)
Date: 4 Oct 1994 14:25:27 GMT

Many terminal programs allow you to scroll backwards in a screen buffer, 
and even copy material from the buffer. 

However, pine (unlike elm) does not copy the replied-to msg into buffer,
so you can't glance at the msg, should you want to check something there
while responding - or copy a detail from it etc. 

Is it possible to add such a feature in coming versions of pine? If not 
permanent, it could be an option you could choose in setup/configure.

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From: [email-masked] (R. Stewart Ellis)
Date: 16 Oct 94 21:48:26 GMT

>permanent, it could be an option you could choose in setup/configure.

I am not sure what you are saying.  When I reply to a message in pine on
UNIX, it copies the contents of the message into the edit buffer after
asking me if I want it to.  If I wish to delete part of it while in the
editor I can.  I have never seen anything in elm that works any different
from that, but I got tired of waiting for a stable release of elm and never
upgraded to the current version.

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From: [email-masked] (Holger Lillqvist)
Date: 17 Oct 1994 15:10:18 GMT

Thanks. Your reply prompts me to clarify what I was getting at in my original
posting. Due to a misunderstanding from my side my request was very obscure
indeed.
	No, I was not talking about the simple and obvious quote-text-into-reply
-feature of pine. It works fine.  My problem was this. My terminal program
(Vaxterm, created at univ. of Helsinki) has a clever feature: working with
most programs, it saves the screen content which "pours" up and out of your
screen in a large buffer, so whenever you want to you can scroll backwards
through that stuff, copy from it etc. This works for example with elm and
with some newsreaders, but not with pine.
	In my amateurish ignorance I thought this was beacause some copying
mechanism was missing in pine. But in the meantime I have been told that the
this screen buffer is feeded by a linefeed -command from the terminal program
saving the uppermost line of the screen's scrolling area - provided that the
line also is the uppermost physical line of the screen. Now, this last
condition is usually not fulfilled in pine, so it does not work...