[Alpine-info] Eduardo Chappa's patches and newsgroups

[Lucio Chiappetti]

On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Eduardo Chappa wrote:


>  Thank you for sending me the data I asked for off list. Attached there

> is a patch that you can apply on top of the already patched source. It is

> intended to solve the problem you reported. Please let me know how it

> works for you.


Dear Eduardo,
               thanks a lot for the patch, and the short reaction time ! 
I've added the patch, sumitted it to a sort of torture test and it works 
as follows, which I presume is the best sensible thing one can expect and 
is fully acceptable to me :

- starting with the less important thing, the spinner is now fast
- when I delete/undelete news messages in the index this is as fast
   as for mail folders (i.e. instantaneous)
- when I enter the index page I still see the lines appearing one at
   a time, but much faster then with the unpatched version (although
   not as for a mail folder which is instantaneous)

Actually it's even better. When I start Alpine in my newsreading mode,
it goes to the folder list screen in a news collection, with one 
newsgroup "preloaded". If I enter this, the index screen is instantaneous.

If I tab to the next newsgroup, the building of the index screen is line 
by line. However if I jump back to the folder list screen. and then 
re-enter a newsgroup replying NO to the "check for new items", the index 
screen is instantaneous.  So I guess what I observe is a real 
communication delay with the nntp server (which is some 800 km south from 
here !).

Instead, if from the index screen I enter into the thread index and then 
into a message and then come back, long index screen are redrawn line by 
line.

Finally, while D (delete) on the shown index screen is now instantaneous, 
if I do "manual catchup" keeping the D key depressed, I see the index 
screen being updated line by line, maybe in several screenfuls (with the 
"New" message marker appearing) and then in the flag column my red N being 
replaced by a blue D according to my colour setup).

Thanks again to you and all the team for Alpine !

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