Subject: suggestion: recall failed GOTO

From: Mike Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 18:50:41 -0500 (CDT)

I have Incoming, Mail and News folders.  When I use G for GoToFldr, I
sometimes type in the name and forget that my default was Incoming when I
wanted a Mail folder.  This must happen to other people.  If you know what
I'm talking about, my problem is that I forget to hit ^N to cycle the
folder collections.  Then I have to use GoToFldr again, but I have to
re-enter the folder name.  So, since this probably happens to other people
too, I suggest the following:

Design pine so that when GoToFldr is used, if GoToFldr fails because the
folder name does not exist, and the current folder hasn't changed since
GoToFldr failed, when GoToFldr is re-entered it will have the last entered
folder name on the command line to be edited.

That will save us some keystrokes.

Thanks for considering this suggestion.

Mike

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From: Scott Leibrand <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 22:56:48 -0700 (PDT)

Or, even better, perhaps Pine could look for other folders of the same
name in other collections before returning an error?  Perhaps include them
in a list-matches type screen?

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From: "Eduardo Chappa L." <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 11:08:33 -0700 (PDT)

*** Scott Leibrand ([email-masked]) wrote on Aug 2, 1999:

:) Or, even better, perhaps Pine could look for other folders of the same
:) name in other collections before returning an error?  Perhaps include them
:) in a list-matches type screen?
:) 

  Hmm, restrict the search to local folders?. I would hate to have to wait
for pine to check non local folders which takes a lot of time.

Eduardo
http://www.math.washington.edu/~chappa/personal.html

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From: Scott Leibrand <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 12:04:56 -0700 (PDT)

Yeah.  Ideally you could make it configurable what to search, and you
could cancel the search without waiting for it to finish searching.
Unfortuanately, Pine doesn't let you very easily cancel the kinds of
operations that tend to take awhile.  I presume that's because Pine has
called other services and is waiting for them to finish, but it still
would be nice to be able to cancel ANYTHING that's taking too long.

My $.02.  :)