Subject: Does Pine support 'sigdashes'?

From: [email-masked] (Friedemann Baitinger)
Date: Sun, 06 Apr 1997 22:43:28 GMT

I hope this is not a FAQ. Many MUAs including Mozilla and ELM
automatically add 'sigdashes' (---) to the ~/.signature file.
Pine doesn't seem to support this. as a consequence, I have to
maintain a separate .signature file just for Pine which has the
sigdashes included. Is there probably a hidden switch in the
.pinerc which I just haven't noticed so far?
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From: Robin S Socha <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 08:47:27 +0200 (CEST)

On Sun, 6 Apr 1997, Friedemann Baitinger wrote:

  >Many MUAs including Mozilla and ELM automatically add 'sigdashes' (---)
  >to the ~/.signature file. Pine doesn't seem to support this. as a
  >consequence, I have to maintain a separate .signature file just for Pine
  >which has the sigdashes included. Is there probably a hidden switch in
  >the .pinerc which I just haven't noticed so far?

Nope:
	-<option>=<value>      Assign <value> to the pinerc option <option>
              	               e.g. -signature-file=sig1   #command line
or:

	signature-file           = .sig1 		   #.pinerc
	
will do the trick. Just cp your old .signature and add some dashes.

Thanks a bunch for revealing the secret of the mysterious sigdashes, btw :-)
I've always wondered where those came from. *Really* sensible feature, I
must say :-/

Later,
Robin                                         

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From: [email-masked] (Georg Schwarz)
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 21:25:47 +0200

Fred Goodwin <[email-masked]> wrote:

> The little "--" that precede the actual signature, as shown below.  Some

more precisely "-- ", AFAIK.

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From: [email-masked] (Dave Cannell)
Date: 8 Apr 1997 07:35:40 GMT

Thanks for the info.  Dave Cannell

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From: [email-masked] (Sven Guckes)
Date: 8 Apr 1997 20:21:01 GMT

[email-masked] (Georg Schwarz):
> > The little "--" that precede the actual signature, as shown below.

<URL:http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/afw/#sigdashes>

                               Signature Dashes
                                       
   The "signature dashes" actually is a line which is used as the first
   line of a signature. This is described in the "son-on-rfc1036":

	If a poster or posting agent does append a signature to an article,
	the signature SHOULD be preceded with a delimiter line containing
	(only) two hyphens (ASCII 45) followed by one blank (ASCII 32).

   As someone said: "Feel free to disagree all you want." ;-)
   
   The sigdashes act as a seperator which allows easy recognition of
   signatures. This line consists of two dashes and a trailing space, ie
   "-- " (note the space) and thus can be recognized in a data stream as
   the character sequence "(newline)(dash)(dash)(space)(newline)". Some
   programs recognize a signature by the (sigdashes). It's exactly that!
   
   Let me make this perfectly clear: There are no additional characters
   before, after or in between. This means no whitespace before the
   dashes, no additional dashes, one space at the end, followed only by
   an newline which ends the line. That's it!
   
   One day all programs showing mails and articles will be able suppress
   signatures if you don't want to see them. Some programs enforce the
   use of sigdashes, eg [1]ELM, [2]MUTT, and [3]SLRN.
   
   Take a look at these picture pages to see examples of sigdashes in use:
   
   SLRN Picture page:
   [4]http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/slrn/pictures.html
   
   Please Give others the chance to make use of this feature, too. Use
   sigdashes whenever appending you sig to email or articles! Thanks!

   References:

   1. http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/elm/
   2. http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/mutt/
   3. http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/slrn/
   4. http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/slrn/pictures.html

Hope this makes it a little more clear.  :-)

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Sven

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