Subject: Bug or Feature?

From: [email-masked] (Robert Rolf)
Date: 12 Oct 1995 19:40:12 GMT

I just noticed an interesting 'feature' in Pine 3.91.

If you have marked a message in your INBOX for deletion, but decide
to save it to a folder instead, the saved message is tagged for
deletion there too.

If you have big folders (as I often do), you may not notice that there
are one too many deletion tags, and ZAP, you've just nuked a message
you actually wanted to keep.

I don't know about you, but if I've saved something to a folder, I generally
did so because I wanted to KEEP it, not delete it.

Please fix this in 3.92 (trivial I'm sure).

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 1995 08:51:28 -0700 (PDT)

This is indeed fixed in 3.92.

-teg

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From: Robert Rolf <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 10:30:42 -0600 (MDT)

On Sun, 15 Oct 1995, Terry Gray wrote:

about

> This is indeed fixed in 3.92.

Thats good.

Can we also get a move cursor by word left (^\) and one to jump to next 
punctuation (like a . or ,)(^]) if you haven't already done so.
I don't remember these as being 'special' ASCII codes like ^S^Q.

Thanks for the earlier reply.

Robert
[email-masked] or [email-masked]

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 10:28:55 -0700 (PDT)

Unfortunately, on many systems ^\ causes an intentional abort,
and ^] is the most-often-used telnet escape character.

-teg

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From: [email-masked] (Jonathan and DearOldDad)
Date: 14 Oct 1995 01:21:44 GMT

Robert Rolf ([email-masked]) wrote:
:  I just noticed an interesting 'feature' in Pine 3.91.
: If you have marked a message in your INBOX for deletion, but decide
: to save it to a folder instead, the saved message is tagged for
: deletion there too.

True

: If you have big folders (as I often do), you may not notice that there
: are one too many deletion tags, and ZAP, you've just nuked a message
: you actually wanted to keep.
: I don't know about you, but if I've saved something to a folder, I generally
: did so because I wanted to KEEP it, not delete it.

Save it first, before you delete it from your inbox.  Pine will (unless 
you have played with your (s)etup (C)config thingy) save it to your 
designated folder AND delete it from your inbox!

: Please fix this in 3.92 (trivial I'm sure).

Repeat ... (s)ave it first .. it should be saved to your chosen folder 
AND deleted from your inbox.  Hope this helps!

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From: [email-masked] (Jonathan and DearOldDad)
Date: 16 Oct 1995 17:14:02 GMT

Robert Rolf ([email-masked]) wrote:

: Can we also get a move cursor ... (stuff deleted) ... to jump to next 
: punctuation (like a . or ,)(^]) if you haven't already done so.
: I don't remember these as being 'special' ASCII codes like ^S^Q.

Try ^W (control + w) then . or , or ... or whatever !
Hope this helps.
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