Subject: Re: Pine vs NX

From: [email-masked] (Orjan Johansen)
Date: 1 Dec 1996 17:19:48 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
Michael <[email-masked]> wrote:
>On a side note:
>
>Do you know if it is normal for the default composer (PICO) to have trouble
>justifying a line once the message has been postponed?

I would guess it's "normal", since I have this problem too..

Greetings,
Ørjan.

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From: Michael <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 15:38:29 -0800

Hi Ramanuj,

On Wed, 4 Dec 1996, Ramanuj Basu wrote: 

: Pine seems to be "smart" about re-wrapping lines paying attention to the
: quote character only when REPLYing to a message.  When you resume a
: reply, you're in COMPOSE mode, not REPLY mode.  That's my theory, anyway. 
: 

So would this seem to be a bug? An oversight? Worthy of a Bug report?
Seeing how the composer should be able to justify in either COMPOSE or
REPLY mode. 

This seems to happen to quite a few people, since I have received mostly
replies via E-Mail and not follow-ups to this NewsGroup. 

Thanks for your reply,

Michael ([email-masked])

Press CTRL + L-AMIGA + R-AMIGA to continue...

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From: [email-masked] (Ramanuj Basu)
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 1996 01:04:56 GMT

I don't think it's a bug; I think it's a feature.  No, really.  The
reply-indent-string is (theoretically) only of special significance during
a REPLY.  Justification using CTRL-J works just fine in both REPLY and
COMPOSE modes; it just doesn't pay special attention to the
reply-indent-string during COMPOSE mode.

It would be nice if Pine kept track of the current mode when a message gets
postponed, so that resuming that message returned you to the appropriate
(REPLY or COMPOSE) mode.  This would, I think, solve the problem of
continuing a postponed reply and having CTRL-J "misbehave."

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From: [email-masked] (Ramanuj Basu)
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 1996 21:52:23 GMT

>It seems it loses track of the character used for quoting
>(reply-indent-string = : in my case) and justifies the hole line missing
>the point of what the reply-indent-string is for. 

>This DOESN'T happen if I do the same thing to the original message before a
>postpone, only after the message was postponed.

Pine seems to be "smart" about re-wrapping lines paying attention to the
quote character only when REPLYing to a message.  When you resume a reply,
you're in COMPOSE mode, not REPLY mode.  That's my theory, anyway.

-Ram
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