Subject: Tab not quite what I want

From: [email-masked] (Richard Derr)
Date: 14 Jun 1996 22:33:58 GMT

I have several folders, all on a remote system, which recieve new
mail.  My understanding is that I may press tab to go to the next new
message in any folder while on an index listing.  This works as
expected if I'm at the index listing for my main inbox, but I get 'no
new messages in folder' if I'm on the index for a different incoming
folder.

   I'm using Pine 3.94 on a fairly modern Linux system for the client,
and the imapd (patched to support shadow passwords -- why isn't this
included?) from the same distribution on a somewhat older Linux system
for the server.

   Be nice, I'm pretty new to Pine -- couldn't stand it before 3.92.

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 09:27:23 +0100 (BST)

According to the help text available on the Index screen...

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NEXT NEW (TAB) COMMAND

When you press the TAB key, Pine advances to the next "interesting"
message.  When you are using Pine to read email, that message is the next
message in the folder which you have not read before, or that you have
previously flagged as Important.  When reading news folders, the next
"interesting" message is the next one that you have not yet deleted.
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HOWEVER I seem to recall that "interesting" has a subtley different
meaning for non-INBOX folders...

In particular it means something along the lines of "the first 'New'
message that has arrived after the last time you looked in this folder.
(Presumably on the assumption that when you looked in the folder
previously and decided not to read some of the then-'New' messages you
still don't want to read them, but are more interested in the message(s)
just arrived.

Personally I find the behaviour of TAB in such screens a bit
counter-intuitive and not terribly well documented.

Would anyone on the Pine Team care to give a more definitive definition of
TAB's actions?  (I remember we've been over this ground some time back,
but the exact details elude me.)  And perhaps reword the help text at some
point?

Cheers,

Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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