Subject: Re: Help with "Select-without-confirm" Option

From: [email-masked] (Macgician!)
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 1994 14:09:09 -0500

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (Craig
Werner) wrote:

    +  When I read a message and type "e" to export the message, I am asked for
    +  a filename regardless of how I have set the "select-without-confirm" 
    +  If I understand the help screen for this option under the configuration 
    +  section, enabling "select-without-confirm" shouldn't allow for any 
    +  editing of a filename.

What i fail to understand here, is how should Pine know what filename to give
for the mail you are exporting. Let's say I do set a filename for two messages
to be exported one after another. So assuming this feature works, the second
time i export, it should do it automatically without prompting for a filename.
If this happens then how does the export work meaning....whether the file gets
overwritten or appended to?

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        FEATURE: select-without-confirm

This feature controls an aspect of Pine's Save, Export, and Goto commands.
These commands all take text input to specify the name of the folder or
file to be used, but allow you to press ^T for a list of possible names.
If set, the selected name will be used immediately, without further
opportunity to confirm or edit the name.

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 1994 11:43:18 -0800

select-without-confirm refers to the confirmation prompt after selecting a
file with ^T, not after typing the file name. 

|\ |  |\/|  David L. Miller    [email-masked]  (206) 685-6240
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On Thu, 3 Nov 1994, Craig Werner wrote:

> Date: Thu, 3 NOV 1994 10:28:11 GMT 
> From: Craig Werner <[email-masked]>
> Newgroups: comp.mail.pine
> Subject: Help with "Select-without-confirm" Option 
> 
> 
> Hello, everyone.
> 
> I'm having difficulty understanding the "select-without-confirm" option
> in Pine 3.91.  I'd appreciate some help, please.
> 
> When I read a message and type "e" to export the message, I am asked for
> a filename regardless of how I have set the "select-without-confirm" option.
> If I understand the help screen for this option under the configuration 
> section, enabling "select-without-confirm" shouldn't allow for any editing 
> of a filename.  I think I must be dense, but I'm stuck.  I have checked
> the release notes and can find no help.
> 
> Thanks for any help you can give.
> 
> Craig Werner <[email-masked]>
> 
>

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From: [email-masked] (Craig Werner)
Date: Sat, 5 Nov 1994 10:16:41 GMT

>file with ^T, not after typing the file name. 
 
David, at first this explanation was perfectly clear.  Later, though, I
wondered how one could type ^G after the "E" command.  Isn't "E" one of the
commands that is supposed to work with ^T?  The help screen seems to
indicate this is so.

Craig