Subject: Suggestion for Pine

From: [email-masked] (Henry Kuo)
Date: 29 Nov 1994 18:01:59 GMT

Hi there:

Is that possible to use arrow keys to control pine just like in gopher?  
It would be very convenient to use arrow keys to go into and leave index and 
menu.

Thanks!!

Henry

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From: [email-masked] (Fred New)
Date: 30 Nov 1994 09:53:07 GMT

While we're discussing this, how about being able to use the Page-Up and
Page-Down keys?  Or having the Delete key be different from the Backspace
key in Pico?  I like the paragraph formatting feature of Pico, but I don't
like moving the cursor after a character so I can delete it.

I'm using a pre-compiled version of Pine on SCO Unix 3.2v4.2, so I don't
know if this is a pre- or post-compile configuration option.  I've looked
around for documentation on this but haven't found anything.
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From: [email-masked] (Fred New)
Date: 30 Nov 1994 11:20:14 GMT

Ooooooooooops!  I whined too soon.  I found a few of my answers in
ftp:  ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/docs/tech-notes.txt.  Sorry guys.
I'm looking forward to be able to use my Delete key someday.
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From: Virtual Dave <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1994 09:46:24 -0500 (EST)

HELP!

Everything was working fine, and then suddenly I start getting the 
following errors (as do my users):

                 [Writing Fcc...]rdlankes... Possible alias loop

Note, I wasn't sending mail to myself, nor is there an alias for rdlankes 
in /etc/aliases or in my addressbook.

I then get a Mail Delivery Subsystem error saying I didn't have any valid 
recipients. This happens both in 3.91 and 3.90

If it's a sendmail problem I can't find it.

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From: Virtual Dave <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1994 10:22:23 -0500 (EST)

It appears that setting a value for SMTP in the Configurations menu fixes 
the problem...don't know why.

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From: [email-masked] (Gunther Anderson)
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1994 18:22:27 GMT

Fred New ([email-masked]) wrote:
: While we're discussing this, how about being able to use the Page-Up and
: Page-Down keys?  Or having the Delete key be different from the Backspace
: key in Pico?  I like the paragraph formatting feature of Pico, but I don't
: like moving the cursor after a character so I can delete it.

I'd call it a terminal emulation problem, after a fashion.  In my 
experience, few VT-xxx emulators handle the cursor kepys (including home, 
pgup, pgdn) consistently or accurately.  So it's hard for a program to 
try to cover all the bases.  Most therefore don't try.  However, if you 
can re-map your keyboard, ^D is "delete-next-character" in Pine; ^Y is 
PgUp and ^V is PgDn.  With access to the source, you could certainly 
remap them yourself in the code.

Gunther Anderson