[Alpine-info] Proposal for folder history/collection change

[Steve Hubert]

On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, Wolfgang.Friebel at desy.de wrote:


> A nice new feature in alpine is keeping the history of visited mail folders 

> within a collection and browsing through the list using the arrow keys.

>

> That required the introduction of CTRL-N/P for changing the collections.

> My previous proposal to use in addition PgUp/Dn for changing the collections 

> was not taken and now seems also impractical to me. Maybe a different 

> approach would work:

>

> If I browse to the begin or end of the folder history the next key press 

> could me take to the previous or next collection. There again the history

> could be walked up and down or if no history for that collection does exist 

> yet to just display the new collection with the folder part left empty.

>

> This resembles the behaviour of keys in some shells and should be familiar at 

> least to the Linux/UNIX folks.

>

> Is this an acceptable proposal?


This does seem like a nice idea. We don't have any free cycles to work on 
it at the moment but we hope we can get to it. Thanks.

Steve