Subject: ";" option

From: Michael Schuyler <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 10:47:23 -0800 (PST)

One of our subscribers reports the ; option does not work to select
messages. She's right. I assumed some sort of option in pine.conf, but
after a perusal I can't find how to turn that option on. I'm obviously
doing something wrong. Anybody know what?

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From: Edward M Greshko <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 07:34:43 +0800 (GMT)

> doing something wrong. Anybody know what?

	This is an "easy" one to miss...

         FEATURE: enable-aggregate-command-set
 
Setting this feature enables the commands and subcommands that relate to
performing operations on more than one message at a time.  We call these
"aggregate operations".  In particular, the "; Select", "A Apply",
and "Z Zoom" commands are enabled by this feature.  Select is used to
"tag" one or more messages meeting the specified criteria.  Apply can
then be used to apply any message command to all of the selected/tagged
messages.  Further, the Zoom command allows you to toggle the Folder Index
view between just those Selected and all messages in the folder.
 
This feature also enables the "^X" subcommand in the FOLDER INDEX WhereIs
command which causes all messages matching the WhereIs argument to become
selected.
 
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From: [email-masked] (Holger Lillqvist)
Date: 19 Dec 1996 06:16:37 GMT

Edward M Greshko:
> "aggregate operations".  

And why must that feature be specifically enabled? What harms could there
be if it was always active, without options?

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 13:39:39 -0800

> doing something wrong. Anybody know what?

In pine.conf, set

	feature-list=enable-aggregate-command-set

This can also be selected per-user in the Setup/Config screen...

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 09:01:12 +0000 (GMT)

The reason that the aggregate command set is not enabled by default is, I
believe, the aim of keeping Pine simple to use for novice users.  This
includes protecting them against some of the more powerful commands, at
least until they have gained sufficient experience with general use of
Pine so as not to be thrown by them.

If Systems Administrator disagress with this policy (s)he can quite easily
"turn the option on" for everyone simply by adding the appropriate line to
the systemwide configuration file used by Pine.

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