Subject: Macro or shortcuts needed

From: Guy BRAND <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 19:18:23 GMT

Hi,

Is there any plan for adding macros or shortcuts feature to Pine ? One can
already execute many commands when starting Pine (l,i, etc) it would also be
great to be able to record a shortcut to be allowed to use commands when
reading news, such as $ = ;aadxTAB when reading news groups to be able to
purge a news group from all its messages and check the next news group. 

Cheers
GB

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 14:27:17 -0700 (PDT)

Macros are on our (infinitely long) to-do list.............

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On Fri, 21 Apr 1995, Guy BRAND wrote:

> Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 19:18:23 GMT
> From: Guy BRAND <[email-masked]>
> To: [email-masked]
> Subject: Macro or shortcuts needed
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
>

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From: [email-masked] (tompkins)
Date: 21 Apr 1995 19:43:01 GMT

David L Miller ([email-masked]) wrote:

: Macros are on our (infinitely long) to-do list.............

Hi,
Let me also put in a vote for macros or a scripting capability or the
like.  It would be great for e.g., sorting the mail when you subscribe
to a number of listservs.  I could put all my select, apply and save or
export commands in one macro.
 
Phil

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From: David Dumaresq <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 11:42:37 -0700 (PDT)

> : Macros are on our (infinitely long) to-do list.............

Just a suggestion about your infinitely long list: have you considered 
enlisting some of the talent that is lurking about out here? 

We could be designing, coding, testing functions for you or is there 
something financial/political or just plain practical that doesn't make 
this idea feasible?

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 13:32:15 -0700 (PDT)

> enlisting some of the talent that is lurking about out here? 

David,
The challenge is software management.

The ideal case for this type of assistance is to find an enhancement that 
involves one or a few modules that are not involved in the other work
going on --otherwise we end up spending a lot of time synchronizing and 
re-integrating source code.  

There are not a lot of enhancements that can be easily isolated; that is,
most involve modules that already have several sets of fingers modifying
them.  However, there are some: for example, quite a few people have asked
for a mailbox driver that automatically compresses and uncompresses.  Such
a project could be done with minimal coordination, but so far no one has 
volunteered...

-teg