Subject: Duration of informational messages?

From: [email-masked] (W Halverson)
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 08:00:42 GMT

I've poured over the man pages for pine without luck.

(How) can one alter the duration of the informational displays such as
"Last message deleted"?  It obviously is coded into the program since
it lasts far longer than the time necessary to actually delete the
message(s).

It is kind of annoying to have to wait so long.

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From: [email-masked] (Orjan Johansen)
Date: 28 Aug 1996 14:09:00 GMT

>it lasts far longer than the time necessary to actually delete the

In my setup (the usual one, I assume) the display lasts until I do
something, but it isn't a delay per se.. there is an option called
status-message-delay, you might try to set it to 0 (the default) if it
isn't already?

Greetings,
Ørjan.

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 18:57:08 -0700 (PDT)

Are you assuming that you can't do anything until the message goes away?

That is not the case.  The only time user input is blocked by an
informational message is when it's important enough to want to guarantee
you a chance to read it *AND* the user input would result in overwriting
that msg too soon.   Pine denotes this situation by putting angle
brackets at the beginning and end of the message text, in addition to the
normal square brackets.

-teg