[Alpine-info] Alpine display problem

[Eduardo Chappa]

On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:


:) > To me this is reasonable. If I unselect a message, I would probably 

:) > expect to find the cursor in a selected message, rather than an 

:) > unselected one. After all, I am not interested in the unselected 

:) > message anymore, and am interested in a selected message. Probably 

:) > what alpine is doing by zooming is the easiest way to get that 

:) > behavior. It seems like it is more effective (if, say I will select 

:) > messages by selecting all and unselecting those that I do not want 

:) > to).

:) 

:) I would agree *if* alpine were in zoomed mode when that message was 

:) unselected. (e.g. See what happens if you ':'-deselect a message when 

:) not all messages are selected, and you're not in zoomed mode. No 

:) auto-zoom.)


I thought that this was the behavior that we were discussing, and not what 
happens when you just "unselect" a message. My comment was limited to 
that. I still think the current behavior is correct, but since others 
disagree, I guess a new configuration should be in place. I guess 
something like

  [X] Do not auto zoom on unselect

should work.

In the big scale of things, this is not really important. The behavior can 
be circumvented by pressing "Z" at an appropriate time (e.g. after the 
first unselect). I do not think this is really major.

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