Subject: selection (;) in pine 3.93?

From: "J. Schier" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 15:52:31 +0200

Hi,

I've encountered the following problem with pine 3.93 (running on
SunOS): when I try to select some text in folder listing, using the
semicolon command, pine complains "Command ";" not defined for this
screen. Use ? for help". In help, this command is listed, however.

I was looking in comp.mail.pine, but it seems that nobody has
encountered this problem, at least in the recent postings.

Thanks for any help.

			Jan

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 11:02:05 -0400

> encountered this problem, at least in the recent postings.

    Did you specifically turn on enable-aggregate-command-set in your
Pine configuration?  In older versions of Pine, ';' did not seem to
appear in the Help screens unless it was specifically enabled, but I
don't know about 3.93, as I have had it enabled for a long time.

    However, I am a little puzzled by what you mean when you say
"select some text in folder listing," because a folder listing is just
that: an index listing which does not show the texts of articles
within the folder.  As far as I know, ';' does not work with text
portions of articles but with articles as whole entities.

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 18:47:23 +0100 (BST)

It is not available by default...

Go to the Setup Configuration screen (S then C from the Main Menu) and
select the "enable-aggregate-command-set" option (or something with a name
vaguely like that -- I can't recall it precisely from memory).

Cheers,

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From: [email-masked] (David Cassel)
Date: 15 May 1996 21:10:20 GMT

Paul O Bartlett ([email-masked]) wrote:
: > I've encountered the following problem with pine 3.93 (running on
: > SunOS): when I try to select some text in folder listing, using the
: > semicolon command, pine complains "Command ";" not defined for this
: > screen. Use ? for help". In help, this command is listed, however.
: 
:     Did you specifically turn on enable-aggregate-command-set in your
: Pine configuration?  

Thanks!  I read the whole config menu and even did a search for the word
"Select"--but never realized I was looking for "aggregate command set".

:     However, I am a little puzzled by what you mean when you say
: "select some text in folder listing," because a folder listing is just
: that: an index listing which does not show the texts of articles
: within the folder.  As far as I know, ';' does not work with text
: portions of articles but with articles as whole entities.

That's one of the coolest features about the pine mail-reader.  If you've
got hundreds of messages saved in a folder that need searching, you can
type ; - select   t - text    a - all, and it will search the messages for
any which contain that text string (in all parts of the message, including
the body.) 

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