Subject: Re: Replying

From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 1996 09:38:20 +0100 (BST)

I think "DearOldDad"'s somewhat terse reply could perhaps benefit from a
small amount of elaboration...

Pine allows you to alter its behaviour in a great many (and ever
growing:-( number of ways.  These are accessed, perhaps unsurprisingly,
from a menu item called "SETUP" on the Main Menu.  After selecting this
and then "Configuration" (as against "Printer", for example) you get to
the famous but apparently little discovered "Setup Configuration" screen,
where all the innards can be controlled.

Looking through the various options available reveals one called
"signature-at-bottom" (which looks promising?).

It is at _this_ point you can put your cursor on this variable and press
"?" to see the on-line help about it.

Cheers,

Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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On Thu, 29 Aug 1996, Chris Womack wrote:

> Whenever I reply to a message, my cursor is inserted before
> the replied to "text".  Is there any way to set the cursor
> to appear after the quoted text?

On 31 Aug 1996, DearOldDad wrote:

> RTFM or ?

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From: Chris Womack <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 08:50:59 -0500

Mike Brudenell wrote:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------> The Computing Service, University of York, Heslington, York, YO1 5DD, UK

I've tried this to no avail...it DOESN'T work!  As for DearOldDad, I 
wonder
if he has anything better to do than reply to everyone with RTFM?

Thanks for explaining the technique to me, but I already tried these 
options.
Chris

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From: Ed Greshko <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 10:31:29 +0800 (GMT)

> Thanks for explaining the technique to me, but I already tried these 

	I believe most people missed your question.

	You want your "cursor" to be placed at a specific point.
That option does not exist.

	Regards,

		Ed

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From: [email-masked] (DearOldDad)
Date: 7 Sep 1996 03:16:16 GMT

Ed Greshko ([email-masked]) wrote:
: On Tue, 3 Sep 1996, Chris Womack wrote:
: > > > Whenever I reply to a message, my cursor is inserted before
: > > > the replied to "text".  Is there any way to set the cursor
: > > > to appear after the quoted text?
: > > On 31 Aug 1996, DearOldDad wrote:
: > > > RTFM or ?
: > I've tried this to no avail...it DOESN'T work!  As for DearOldDad, I 
: > wonder
: > if he has anything better to do than reply to everyone with RTFM?
: > Thanks for explaining the technique to me, but I already tried these 
: > options.
: 	I believe most people missed your question.
: 	You want your "cursor" to be placed at a specific point.
: That option does not exist.
: 	Regards,
: 		Ed

Well it wurx fur mee sow now with out furthur adoo an totaally
disregardingin the contorol T spellchequuer thingy and all the other good
stuff in the pine in the pine where the sun never shines and kudos to the
piney developars imho yall mayhaps may whissh two rtfm won moor thyme b4
ewe post a flame.  Yank you and have a nice day even if you have other
plans.  BYE.  oh, I gess i'll just prYnt thiss out ... o won more thing
... the prYnt command duz wurk if y'all have yr config sys setup correctly
... well it's only a thought ... G'Day

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From: ADAM Sulmicki <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 7 Sep 1996 20:49:02 -0400 (EDT)

There was annoying fact that when the number of fields in header is
variable so the "Subject:" line was usually in different place when
reading each message. So it was pain in ass to find it when reading
messages in cruise-cruse mode (N or D advances to next message), and I
usually found myself reading message, then going to index to read subject
of next message, and then going into the next message.

Here is an small fix to make subject of message being in green color
(replace the 32 w/ 7 to get inverse video modem for terminals which does
not support colors).

So now, when you _view_ each message, the subject highlighted /w cool
green color. 

Yep, there is ample room for improvement, it could be possible to add it
for config file/setup, it could ask in what color you want it highlighted,
it could detec if your terminal support color, and if not use inverse
video mode. It could colorize other parts of header. For example the
signature could be yellow, the body dark-whie, and other parts of header
(evelope) in differnet colors -- but for me it does all what I wanted to. 

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[root@ax pine]# diff -u mailview.c.ORIGINAL mailview.c

--- mailview.c.ORIGINAL Sat Sep  7 14:30:16 1996
+++ mailview.c  Sat Sep  7 14:47:01 1996
@@ -1502,10 +1502,16 @@
     if((which & FE_SUBJECT) && e->subject && e->subject[0]){
        if(prefix)
          gf_puts(prefix, pc);
-
+/*
+Copyright 1996. Adam Sulmicki <[email-masked]>
+\e[0;7m                (inverse)
+\e[0;32m       (green)
+\e[0;37m       (reset - WoB)
+*/
        gf_puts("Subject: ", pc);
+       gf_puts("\e[0;32m", pc); /* setting green, alt. use 7 for
inverse*/
        format_env_puts((char *) rfc1522_decode((unsigned char *)
tmp_20k_buf,
                                                e->subject, NULL), pc);
+       gf_puts("\e[0;37m", pc); /* setting green, alt. use 7 for
inverse*/
        gf_puts(NEWLINE, pc);
     }
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

And a quick perl script which let you see what # correspond to what color
(and optionally you can use it to check if your termainal supports colors
at all. )

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#!/usr/imports/bin/perl
# Copyright 1996. Adam Sulmicki <[email-masked]>
foreach $i (1..7,30..47) {
        if ($i <= 7) {$s = " ";} else {$s = "";}
        print ("[\e[0;${i}mcolor $i$s\e[0;37m]\t");
        if ( ($i == 5) || ($i == 32) || ($i == 37) || ($i == 42) ) 
		{ print "\e[0;37m\n"; } 

}
print "\n";

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-Adam

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From: John aka DearOldDad <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 11:14:55 -0400

On Sun, 8 Sep 1996, Harry Slaughter wrote:
> > Chris Womack ([email-masked]) wrote:
> > : Whenever I reply to a message, my cursor is inserted before
> > : the replied to "text".  Is there any way to set the cursor
> > : to appear after the quoted text?
> > RTFM or ?
> Heck, this seems like a good enough question to ask. If you don't have the
> patience to answer, why not just leave it alone?

Well, you are correct.  I thought that a short answer indicating that pine
has built-in (and context sensitve) help might answer the question, but
obviously it did not.  Thank you.  G'Day.

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From: Harry Slaughter <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 8 Sep 1996 23:24:45 -0700

On 31 Aug 1996, DearOldDad wrote:

> : thanks,
> : Chris
> : [email-masked]

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