Subject: Desired PINE features [Was Re: PINE questions ...]

From: Ted Stern <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 1995 12:09:40 -0800

[Note to newsgroup and CC'd readers -- I found the following personal 
correspondence quite interesting, and so I'm spreading my reply around in 
the hopes that it will reach readers who could implement the suggested 
features in the next version of PINE]

On Sat, 25 Mar 1995, Stuart Lerner wrote:

> 
> 
> 
> > In Pine 3.91, you can postpone multiple messages.  When you resume C[ompose],
> > you will then be give a list of possible compositions to be continued.
> 
> I can't wait for mulitple message compositions ..... YEAH ...
> 
> Ted,
> 
> I love PINE.  Any book where I've read the authors recommending others, I 
> ignore them.
> 
> Is there an EZ way to copy from another msg.  For example I'm composing 
> to Peter, I want to include a msg I've just written to Susan. 
> 
> I do either of these ... I Postpone, go into sent-mail folder, Export to 
> tempfilename.  Then Compose Yes continue .. the Read File ...
> Not pretty but it works.
>

I assume the other part of the "EITHER" is to postpone, export the 
message you are working on, then forward the other message and include 
the interrupted message (the same thing as what you do above, but in 
reverse).

> Is there an easier way, short of starting off by forwarding the message.  
> Sometimes I dont know before-hand I want to include a message..
> 
> Also are you aware of this peculiar PINE item. If I'm answering/replying 
> to a message, the postpone it, PINE will not mark that message as "A" = 
> answered ....
> 

A problem!  See below.

> Otherwise I love PINE even with it's faults is 1000x easier than ELM.
>

I would  agree, except that I came to PINE from mailx :).
 
> I look forward to your reply. TIA
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Stu L.
> [email-masked]
> 

I think you are at the limit of what you can do as far as file inclusion
goes with what you describe above.  However, I think it would be an excellent
addition to PINE if it had the following feature inside Compose:

	Upon hitting ^R, instead of just being able to include a file, or 
to browse through your directory list for a file, you would also have 
options to include

	(a) the message you are responding to,
	(ii) a message number in the current folder, or 
	(3) you could browse through different folders 
	(including the postponed-messages folder!)
	to select a message to ^R[ead] in.

But I don't see these feature being added too soon, unless I hear 
differently from one of the other people reading this ;) ...

With regard to that second item you mentioned, maybe there needs to be a "P" 
flag to indicate that an answering message has been postponed.

Sorry I couldn't help you directly, but maybe someone else can!

	-- Ted
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