Subject: searching limited to dislayed terminal

From: Frank Tobin <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 16:10:37 -0500 (CDT)

I've noticed that when using the WhereIs command (W), searching only finds
hits that actually displayed on the terminal.  This is of disastrous
consequences when doing things like searching for subjects of messages in
the Message Index mode where the subject trails off the screen; when this
happens, any data that is off the screen is uncapable of being a 'hit'.

Has this issue been addressed? (I searched the archives a bit but it's
incapable of narrowing down responses yet).

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From: Scott Leibrand <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 15:12:17 -0700 (PDT)

A much better tactic for searching in the message index is to use the ;
command to select messages.  So ";ts" without quotes would search for text
in the subject field of all your messages.

Will that workaround do what you want?

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On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Frank Tobin wrote:

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From: Frank Tobin <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 00:14:57 -0500 (CDT)

> Will that workaround do what you want?

It is a workaround, yes, but I don't feel it addresses the issue, really.  
The WhereIs functionality is great in that it is applicable in almost any
mode of Pine.  To suddenly have to "switch mindsets" because one is in a
different Pine mode where stuff could be cutoff seem kind of silly to me.

Furthermore, consider the user confusion that could arise when a WhereIs
works for a while, and then the user resizes the terminal to a small
value, the WhereIs no longer produces the desired hits.  All that has
changed is the terminal size, but suddenly the behaviour of the program
has been significantly altered; this is not good UI engineering.

I should also note missing hits because they aren't in the terminal not
only applies to searching for Subjects, but to anything else that can get
cut-off, such as the "From" field of the Message Index screen.

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