Subject: suggestions

From: "Eduardo Chappa L." <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 20:32:32 -0800 (PST)

Hello,

There is an inconsistent use of the command ^C in the program. I have the
idea that every time I want to cancel any command I have to press ^C. Some
menus can be canceled like that, some others can not. For example the
following menu can not:

View selected URL "http://www.washington.edu/pine/pine-info/" ?                 
Y [Yes]                   U editURL                                             
N No                      A editApp                                            

Actually this menu does not contain a help key either. My suggestion is to
make ^C available in all menus. I know how to read menus, is just that I
don't want to read which ones can be cancelled by pressing "N" and/or
"^C".

The same can be said about the "?" and "^G" keys.

The other annoying keybinding that I find is that when reading help "E"
and "P" have meanings which are not really intuitive for me. "E" is used
to exit the help and "P" is used for "previous help". I would use "E" to
go back to the previous help (like "P"), except that in the first help "E"
would mean "take me out of the help screen" and would use "^C" to get out
of the help directly at any screen help. The reason why I find this
annoying is because I have pressed many times "E" when I only meant to
push the "P" key (because I naïvely understood "E" as "P"). Another
solution which is fine with me is to have "P" and "E" the same meaning in
the first help screen.

  I hope someday pine has some kind of keybinding support. It is sometimes
frustrating not to be able to do so.

-- 
Eduardo
http://www.math.washington.edu/~chappa/pine/

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From: Andy Malato <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 00:07:28 -0500

I would have to agree here with that.

especially with the ^C key.

	---Andy

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From: Seth Kurtzberg <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 22:18:08 -0700 (MST)

Consistency is always good.  Configurable Key mappings would be great.  
It would be difficult to implement key mappings, because you would have to
use rather different methods in PC-Pine and UNIX Pine.  Personally, I
never use Windows unless there is absolutely no alternative, so I'd be
happy with configurable key mappings for UNIX that are not supported for
PC-Pine.  Others would no doubt disagree.

Seth Kurtzberg
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