Subject: comment field in address book

From: Barry Chametzky <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 09:58:30 -0800 (PST)

We have a customer who is interested in the following:

When she adds a phone number in the comment field in her PINE address
book, she would very much like to see this comment field on the screen (as
well as all the other fields) rather than manually editing the line and
typing C (for comment field). 

It is an interesting request.  Is it possible to have such a feature in 
the next release of PINE?

Thanks very much.

--Barry

Barry Chametzky
Innosoft International, Inc.         Telephone: (818) 919-3600
1050 East Garvey Avenue South        FAX:  (818) 919-3614
West Covina, California  91790       Web:  http://www.innosoft.com

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 09:07:07 +0000 (GMT)

And perhaps she would like to pay to have everyone's terminals replaced 
with ones having wider screens?  There's a limit to how much information 
can be fitted on an 80 character long line. :-)  I for one would be 
definitely opposed to splitting each entry onto two lines (you'd get far 
fewer entries per screen, making use of the address book that much harder).

Cheers,

Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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From: Ralf Widera <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 16:05:11 +0100 (MET)

> > typing C (for comment field). 

Perhaps it could be done the same way as is currently the case with long 
addresses. They do not fit completely on the screen (80 chars) but are 
visible by increasing the window (I am using pine in an xterm :-)). 

The comment field could just be added behind the address field. Thus it 
could be made visible by increasing the window size for people who are 
lucky enough. So all without this possibility would have no loss compared 
to the current situation. 

I have to admit that I also would be very much interested in a visible 
comment field. 

-raw

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 15:44:32 +0000 (GMT)

Actually, I use the "default fcc" field of Address Book entries more 
often than the comment field, and so would naturally prefer to have it 
displayed in preference.  :-)

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 09:49:32 -0800 (PST)

> displayed in preference.  :-)

This will be available in Pine 3.92.

> > I have to admit that I also would be very much interested in a visible

This too...

--DLM

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