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

From: [email-masked] (Wet-Sprocket)
Date: 3 Dec 1994 00:09:25 GMT

Comes here Mr. Don Loflin with this query in the "comp.mail.pine" group in this article on 1 Dec 1994 12:07:44 -0600:

 +   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>'. 

Try this:

; T A tcp-group

That should work. You can also type [email-masked]
to make the selection process much more stringent. Enjoy!

PS: However the 'macro' idea isin't that bad at all. Infact what will be
    more kewl is if i can define 'macros' in pico(a la vi keymaps).

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From: Nancy McGough <[email-masked]>
Date: 3 Dec 1994 21:23:25 GMT

>; T A tcp-group

But won't that do a full text search of the folder (since A means 
"All Text")?  For a big folder it would be *much* more efficient to
search only the To and Cc lines.  It would be nice if you could
just search the headers, e.g., by typing:  ;THtcp-group

>    more kewl is if i can define 'macros' in pico(a la vi keymaps).

Yes, yes!  Macros and key remapping in Pine and Pico would be great.

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From: [email-masked] (Wet-Sprocket)
Date: 4 Dec 1994 15:12:33 GMT

Comes here Mz. Nancy McGough with this opinion in the "comp.mail.pine" group in this article on 3 Dec 1994 21:23:25 GMT:

 +   >; T A tcp-group
 +   But won't that do a full text search of the folder (since A means 
 +   "All Text")?  For a big folder it would be *much* more efficient to
 +   search only the To and Cc lines.  It would be nice if you could
 +   just search the headers, e.g., by typing:  ;THtcp-group

Yes and that's the kewl thing about it. You don't have to do the selection
twice. Imagine you do the selection for the To: headers and then if you want
to select the Cc: headers too, you will *have* to use Broaden/Narrow selction
method which is a pain. Instead if you do ;TA and then type 'nancym' it will 
select all the mail which has headers equal to that value either in To: or Cc:
at the same time. The only problem with this is that it will select a mail
if it has nancym in its body, even if the headers of that mail don't match.
So in order to make the search criteria extensive/stringent you would type 
the whole address [email-masked]', and this will result in an  appropriate
selection.

> For a big folder it would be *much* more efficient to search only the 
> To and Cc lines. 

Yes, I agree with that. But the current versions don't support that yet. So
instead of doing Broaden/Narrow Selection method, ;TA method works for me.