Subject: some annoying things with pine

From: Ronald Wahl <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 00:10:47 +0200

Hi,

I use pine since release 3.91 and here are two annoying things which did
not changed in the last releases.

 * If I delete the last message pine uses a lot CPU time for something
   (busy waiting?!) and after a delay of one or more seconds marks the
   message deleted. What is pine doing so long which so much CPU time?

 * The same busy waiting occurs if I press to often "arrow down" on the
   end of the newsgroup index. This can be take a long time if I've
   pressed "arrow down" to long.

If this is not a bug - is there a way to prevent this?

ron

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 20:42:41 -0700 (PDT)

> If this is not a bug - is there a way to prevent this?

In both cases the delay is due to Pine checking for new mail.  There
isn't much you can do in either situation :(

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From: Ronald Wahl <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 06:02:42 +0200 (MET DST)

> isn't much you can do in either situation :(

If it's checking for new mail it has only to check the status of my local
mailbox and I do not believe that this take a whole second. Maybe there
should be a config option to disable the checking for new mail in this
cases. The delays are very annoying.

ron

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From: Ronald Wahl <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 12:04:26 +0200

On Thu, 25 Apr 1996, Finn Hybjerg Hansen wrote:

> I had the same problem, because :
> 
>  'show-cursor' was enabled and
>  'status-message-delay = 1' (second)

The setting of `show-cursor' doesn't make any difference and
status-message-delay is 0 in my setup.

> (.... or maybe  'news-post-without-validation' will change something? )

This check occurs only if I post something to the news.

ron

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From: Finn Hybjerg Hansen <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 11:24:11 +0200

Turning those options off solved my problem, no more waiting time :-)  but
maybe they already are turned off in your setup?

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