Subject: More suggestions

From: [email-masked] (Sherwood Botsford)
Date: 21 Oct 1995 06:31:21 GMT

I'm using pine 3.91 under NextSTep and HP-UX. I've got my default editor
set to vi.  A couple minor agravations.

1.  If my file carbon copy is set to name, and I reject the fcc when I
suddently realize that I'm about to make yet another folder, pine throws
me back in the editor.  I think that instead it should leave me on the
fcc line, to change/delete it, or optionally abort the fcc. (Another
config item?)

2.  Both in PICO and in Pine, when the reply is quoted, the blank lines
are quoted too.  This means that delete paragraph in vi zaps the entire
message.  Please, can pine do some formating of the message and stuff a
blank line between paragraphs when quoting.  

3.  At present for a list I can set a name for the fcc folder.  While I
don't really want a folder for each person I correspond with, I'd like
to have some automation here.  Could pine remember on a per name basis
where to put fcc's, at least for the one's in the address book.  

(E.g. I throw all my vendor correspondence into a folder called Vendors.
There are people on the strawbale mailing list that I want always fcc'd
to strawbale, instead of to bec2354. )

4. I'm using procmail to prefilter my mail and put the stuff from about
8 of the mailing lists I'm on into separate folders which I identify as
incomming folders for Pine.  That works great.  One of the folders has
about 300 messages in it.  I'd like to jsut keep them there -- I don't
really see a need to keep the incoming separate from the storage for
these guys.
	HOWEVER, pine takes a long time to check that it doesn't have
anything new in it.  I suspect that it's reading the whole damn thing to
find out if there's anything new.  Surely this could be done with a file
stat call to check the timestamp of the file.  (This may require Pine to
keep track of when it last read a given folder.)

Ok, flame away.

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From: [email-masked] (Sven Guckes)
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 1995 23:06:01 +0100 (MET)

Quoting Sherwood Botsford:

> pine 3.91, NextSTep and HP-UX.

Use this vi "macro" to clear all lines which only contain the "quote string":

	" 950101 ,D = "clear quoted empty lines"
	map	,D :g/^> *$/s/^.*$//

	NOTE:	You can put this into vi's startup file ($HOME/.exrc).
		"^M" has to be typed in with "control-v control-m".
		The '"' at the start of the line marks the line as a comment.
		Comments are *not* made with a has mark (#).

This assumes that "> " is the "quote string".

Of course you could let vi perform the command ",D" with every starup
but I do not recommend it.  Use it when appropriate!

Sven

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