[Alpine-info] Alpine with preview pane

[Eduardo Chappa]

On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, S.Madge wrote:


:) Is there an option to enable a message preview pane of some sort in 

:) alpine 1.00?


Not a pane, but you can see a little bit of the text, as you would see the 
subject, by using the OPENINGTEXTNQ token in the Index Format variable.

I have my Index Format set to

 SHORTIMAPSTATUS FROMORTO(18) SUBJECT(18) OPENINGTEXTNQ

That might not be good enough for most people, since things like 
"[Alpine-info]" would dominate the Subject field, so I use some 'rules' 
(from one of my patches) to eliminate such information. I also trim some 
information from the OPENINGTEXTNQ field (like the reply-leadin), so I get 
more of the real message. Again, using two of my patches ('rules' and 
'fillpara'). I have set up also some folders where I do not include the 
subject token at all, and I have found that I hardly ever need to see it.

I also set up a rule to paint the subject and the openingtextnq token 
differently, so I distinguish them in the index screen.

I hope this helps.

-- 
Eduardo
http://staff.washington.edu/chappa/alpine/