Subject: Filters, Roles, etc. - pattern wrapping feature

From: Murphy <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 13:36:19 +0100 (MET)

Hi,

I just wonder if would be possible add to the Pine in a near future
the mechanism that it allow to display a multiple patterns in the
filters, roles (and in any possible place where they can be used)
reshaped in a such a manner like it is done to the things like a:
    - To:, Cc:, Fcc: fields when multiple addresses was specified"

        example:

            Typing in field To: aa,bb,cc,dd,<ENTER>
            the pine reshape this in 3 line.

    - Attchmnt: (this same as above)
    - incoming-archive-folders (possible adding and removing)
    - url-viewers (as previous one)
    ...
    - and many more

My problem now is that I would like to have as few of the
filters/roles as possible, then I decided to put multiple patterns in
the elements from the group "xxxxx MESSAGE CONDITIONS BEGIN HERE" so I
shouldn't have to replicate all of the filters just for having a
better visibility, which I currently don't have. For instance if I put
few e-mail addresses in any of the element of this group, then it will
be put in one line (the "," characters did not reshape the pattern
vertically), so it is difficult to see what is currently in the
pattern, not mentioning that is almost impossible to see if there no
duplicates in the patterns. So it looks like this:

    Subject pattern   = <No Value Set>
    ! Recip pattern   = [email-masked],[email-masked],[email-masked],[email-masked],[email-masked],[email-masked]
    Partic pattern    = <No Value Set>

But I would like to see something like this:

    Subject pattern   = <No Value Set>
    ! Recip pattern   = [email-masked],
                        [email-masked],
                        [email-masked],
                        [email-masked],
                        [email-masked],
                        [email-masked]
    Partic pattern    = <No Value Set>

Also it would be nice to have a possibility to change the ORDER of the
alternative patterns, ADD/DELETE a patterns, as it is possible for some
other places mentioned above.

I asked about such feature quite a long ago, but since that time
nobody add this. I would be happy to see it soon. :-)

Regards,
Murphy

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From: Lynne Bivona <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 11:49:11 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time)

Hi Murphy,

The way it works now was a purposeful choice, but the developers are now
rethinking it for a future (post 4.60) version.

Thanks for the suggestion!
Lynne Bivona

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From: Matt Ackeret <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 13:27:05 -0800 (PST)

>rethinking it for a future (post 4.60) version.

I *definitely* think this is very necessary.  I use pine filters for
my spam filters (as well as spamassassin on my personal acct.. but my
own filters get a lot of the stuff that gets past spamassassin)..

My filters are simply a list of addresses that show up in URLs often..
and it's a huge list, so it's hard to go over the list and look at all of
the items.

I think it should work just like the To, etc., editor while sending mail...

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From: Murphy <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 23:19:02 +0100 (MET)

>rethinking it for a future (post 4.60) version.

I'm happy to hear this! :-D

Regards,
Murphy