Subject: Q: can you set default for folders?

From: [email-masked] (Apple-O)
Date: 14 Jul 1995 19:18:35 -0400

Is there any way to configure Pine to go right to my mail folder
without having to first go to folders, then to "see expanded
list", then finally choose "inbox". this is really inconvenient

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 20:33:49 -0400

On 14 Jul 1995, Apple-O wrote:

| Is there any way to configure Pine to go right to my mail folder
| without having to first go to folders, then to "see expanded
| list", then finally choose "inbox". this is really inconvenient

    Try invoking Pine as:   pine -l -Il,i

My communications software lets me set up this keystroke sequence on 
a "hot key."  (With some software packages you may have to specify a 
<return>, usually encoded as something like ^M, at the end of the 
invocation sequence.)  In the above, -l tells Pine to expand the folder 
lists, and -Il,i is the initial keystroke list to be executed 
automatically from the Main Menu.  It is actually quite flexible.

Paul
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From: [email-masked] (Jonathan and DearOldDad)
Date: 16 Jul 1995 18:33:18 GMT

Apple-O ([email-masked]) wrote:
: Is there any way to configure Pine to go right to my mail folder
: without having to first go to folders, then to "see expanded
: list", then finally choose "inbox". this is really inconvenient

>From pine's startup screen (Main Menu) highlight Folder Index and click or
press enter, or easier yet, simply type I (the letter i).  Assuming that
your inbox is your 'current folder' this should immediatly give you a list
of messages in your inbox.  You should only have to go thru the folder,
expand, choose, select, routine to view folders other than your inbox.  
Hope this helps.  G'Day.
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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 09:12:35 +0100 (BST)

Even easier...

	pine -i

Starts Pine and immediately displays the index of the default mail folder
(INBOX). 

Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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From: Ralf Widera <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 11:35:29 +0200 (MET DST)

Or even easier ...

goto setup / config and edit the option initial-keystroke-list:

initial-keystroke-list = i

This displays the index of the default mail folder whenever you start 
pine.

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