Subject: Feature request

From: Bret Busby <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 10:01:34 +0800 (WST)

Hello.

I use PINE 4.44, so I do not know whether this feature has been included 
in later versions.

The feature that I request, is the enabling of the use of the <Home> 
key, in the folder list, so that, if a person is at (but not in) a 
folder somewhere in the list, and, presses the <Home> key, the cursor 
(and the display) is shifted to the first folder in the list, which, in 
my list, is the INBOX.

This feature would be similar to the use of the <Home> key in web 
browser windows, when clicking on the key, takes the person to the start 
of the web page; similarly, in the PINE folder list, it would take a 
person to the start of the folder list.

The feature would be useful when people have large numbers of folders (I 
don't know how many hundred folders I have, including archived folders), 
rather than repeatedly clicking the <Page Up> key, or using <G> then 
entering "INBOX" (from memory, that would operate as "Go to folder 
INBOX").

Also, along the same line, perhaps also incorporating the same 
functionality, in reading, or viewing, received messages, would be 
useful, especially when reading long messages, like some newsletters, 
which have lengths of several screens.

Whilst it may be said, that implementing this particular functionality, 
in these two cases, might cause confusion, when using the <Home> key 
during composing a message, takes the cursor to the start of the current 
line, rather than to the start of the message being composed, I am 
confident that, for the most part, PINE users would not be too confused, 
or, if they are, perhaps, an option in the Settings -> Configuration, to 
enable/disable the functionality that I seek, could minimise that 
confusion.

Thank you in anticipation.

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............

"So once you do know what the question actually is,
 you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
  Chapter 28 of 
  "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
  A Trilogy In Four Parts",
  written by Douglas Adams, 
  published by Pan Books, 1992 
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From: Bret Busby <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 13:20:05 +0800 (WST)

> Thank you in anticipation.

It has since occurred to me, after trying to use the <Home> key to go 
to the start of a message that I was composing, and instead going to 
the start of the line, that it might be a good idea, to implement the 
requested use of the <Home> key, by using, as used now, the <Home> key 
to go to the start of the current line, and, <Shift><Home> to go to the 
start of the message, or to the start of the folders list.

That could be useful, both when composing messages, and, when reading 
received messages, and, traversing the folders list,and, would reduce 
confusion.

The action of the <Shift><Home> keypress combination, also in other 
places like the Settings -> Configuration and Settings -> Rules -> 
Filters, and in editing the filters themselves, to go to the start of 
the material being displayed, could also be useful for traversing the 
material being displayed.

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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From: daniel lance herrick <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 10:51:02 -0400 (EDT)

> start of the message, or to the start of the folders list.

Rather than a shift combination, this is an
application for repeated <Home>:

<Home> goes to the beginning of the line
<Home><Home> goes to beginning of paragraph
<Home><Home><Home> goes to beginning of buffer

(and similarly for <End>). I don't remember what
editor it was that had this feature; maybe it was
brief.

dan