[Alpine-info] word search in index limited by screen width

Dallas Trinkle dtrinkle at uiuc.edu
Wed Jul 9 09:47:26 PDT 2008


I'm using alpine 1.10 on a mac, running in an xterm. I tried to search for
an email in my inbox by a word in the subject (Ctrl-W); it was not found,
however, because the word had been cut off of the screen. When I resized
my xterm, alpine could find the now "revealed" word. I played around, and
it appears that Ctrl-W in index only searches for whatever text is
displayed, not against whatever text may be cutoff due to column limits
(this includes cut off From names, not just subject lines).

I wouldn't classify this as a bug per se, but it was unexpected behavior to
me. Perhaps this is a "feature request" to have a Where is search against
the "full entry text" in index (From:, Subject:).

I hope this makes sense. Alpine's been great to have; --d

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Dallas R. Trinkle
Assistant Professor
202A Materials Science and Engineering
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Phone: 217.244.6519
Fax: 217.333.2736
Email: dtrinkle at uiuc.edu
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