Subject: Adding CTRL-C to Q (exit) choices

From: Jim Jaworski <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 1995 02:02:46 -0500

I use pine for most of my Usenet newsgroups but on occasion use 
another Unix system for some of them using the tin newsreader.

	I am used to pressing q to back up to the previous menu (article 
selection/group selection).  Sometimes my hand forgets that I am using 
pine and I press q instead of i to go back to the articl selection menu.  
I am given a choice of 'saving mail in MAILBOX' (a local feature) or 
not.  If I choose n for no I still get booted out of pine.  What should 
happen is that there should be a CRTL-C option there compliant with the 
other pine menus to abort the quit.

	It's VERY frustrating when this happens, to have to re-enter 
pine, then go to the Usenet News folder, especially with newsgroups of 
considerable size (i.e. >100 new messages).

	What can be done about this?  Is it a small feature to add 
whereby the local News admin. could just recompile their version of pine 
or would that be the responsibility of the authors of pine itself?

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From: [email-masked] (Lukas Karlsson)
Date: 4 Jun 1995 08:40:40 GMT

> or would that be the responsibility of the authors of pine itself?

actually, this would not make as much sense as it sounds (although i
have been in the very same situation many times).  if the option
"quit-without-confirm" is set, then pine just quits when you type q.
assuming that is already set, when you type q, pine knows it will be
quitting.  when it has a question for you, like should i move all the
read messages into the default folder, it just wants to know tha
answer to that question, and then it will go back to what it was
doing.  quitting.  

to get the type of functionality that you want, get rid of the
"quit-without-confirm" option.  this will then ask you everytime you
try and quit, if you really want to quit.  annoying, but sometimes, it
is quite worth it.

				- lukas
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Lukas Karlsson                                            [email-masked]
Cloud 9 Internet                                       White Plains, New York

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From: [email-masked] (Lukas Karlsson)
Date: 4 Jun 1995 08:40:40 GMT

- lukas