Subject: Macros for ';' multiple-select (request)

From: [email-masked] (Don Loflin)
Date: 1 Dec 1994 12:07:44 -0600

I love the newly-implented ';' select mode in Pine 3.9x.  It's made
dealing with mailing-list email tractable finally.  But I keep wishing
there was some way for Pine to 'remember' the multiple select commands
I have to enter to isolate the messages of a particular mailing list.

For instance, I'm on the 'tcp-group' mailing list, which has reasonably
high traffic at times.  But some messages are sent to the list using
To:, some using Cc:.  So to select them all, I have to hit '; T T
tcp-group <CR>' and then '; B T C tcp-group <CR>'.  That's a lot of
keystrokes.  And I have to enter them at least every time I run Pine.
And I'm on quite a few mailing lists, not just that one.

My request is for a 'macro' capability, whereby I could hit say, '#'
and a macro-name (i.e using ^T to browse and so on), which would
execute the select commands.  For that matter, this might as well be a
general macro facility for any commands - then I could write one to not
only select the messages, but save them and expunge them.  Gosh, that
sounds like mail filtering!  For the (hopefully small) price of adding
macros.  

Some of you will say "just use procmail".  I can't.  My mail server
doesn't let me log in interactively - I can only access it via IMAP or
POP3 (and I like it that way!).  Besides, I like seeing *all* messages
in one place, in case there's someting recent that catches my eye,
before parceling them off to their own folders (where I then sort by
subject).

Opinions, criticism welcome.  Flamers, go get a fire extinguisher :-)

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Don Loflin
Microcomputer Technologies,        // DISCLAIMER: I do not represent 
Computation Center - UT Austin     // the views of my employer, nor
[email-masked]             // am I acting officially for them

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From: Ed Greshko <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 1994 11:47:38 -0800 (GMT)

> sounds like mail filtering!  For the (hopefully small) price of adding

	I've not given it a try, (I use procmail.. :-) :-) ) , I wonder
if the "pine -I" would be of value?  You could make up a series of
alias commands (i.e. pine.tcp) that would alias to the appropriate
"pine -I" command that would perform the keystrokes necessary to perform
the functions that your describe.  I realize it is a bit "clunky" and
your suggestion is better...but in the mean time.....

						Ed