Subject: View Message Screen: position indicator redraws itself

From: Jeff Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 May 1995 22:14:53 -0500

Does anyone know why every 30 or 60 seconds the indicator that tells you 
how far you are in a message (73%, TOP, BOT, etc.) redraws itself?  This 
is in Pine 3.91.  Is it likely that the length of the message will change 
or that you will change positions in the message w/o pressing any keys?
Will this be eliminated or optional in future releases?

I posted about this several months ago, but I didn't know exactly what 
was redrawing itself.  People thought I was talking about the mail check 
cue or was crazy, but now through the benefits of a SLOW connection, I 
have figured out what it is.

- Jeff

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From: Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 16:25:52 -0700 (PDT)

> Will this be eliminated or optional in future releases?

This is probably happening every time there is a check for new mail,
which by default is every 2.5 minutes.  I don't see how it could be
happening every 30 or 60 seconds, unless the default time has been
changed in your sources.  The reason it does this is because it's a lot
easier to just draw the percentage every time than it is to figure out
whether or not the percentage changed and/or the screen changed since the
last percentage was drawn.  It hasn't been fixed for next version so far.

Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Networks and Distributed Computing, Univ. of Washington, Seattle

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From: Jeff Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 19 May 1995 08:54:23 -0500 (EST)

On 12 May 1995, Steve Hubert wrote:
> changed in your sources.
I think they did change the frequency of checking mail from every 2.5 
minutes to every 1 minute on my system.

> The reason it does this is because it's a lot
Could you explain to me how the percentage can change when you get new 
mail?  If I'm reading a message, and I'm 73% through it, and then new 
mail comes in, I'm still 73% through the message as long as I haven't 
pressed any keys.

- Jeff

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From: Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 19 May 1995 14:13:29 -0700 (PDT)

> mail comes in, I'm still 73% through the message as long as I haven't

Just getting new mail won't cause it to change, but there are lots of
commands you could have done that would.  The point is that it is easier
to just draw the percentage every time through the command loop than it
is to try to figure out whether or not you might have done something that
might have changed it.  The new mail check is just something that
potentially happens when you go through the command loop.  Any other
command may have also happened.