[Alpine-info] Alpine display problem

[Mike Miller]

On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Eduardo Chappa wrote:


> 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 didn't understand it at first, but if you watch the top of your Alpine 
screen you'll see that when the last message in a folder has been selected 
using ":", the folder is not autozoomed, but if you then unselect one 
message, it is autozoomed and that one message disappears from the index. 
That seems is a little surprising.



> 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.



Why do we want an option that causes Alpine to autozoom on unselect?  I 
agree that this isn't a major issue, but as a minor issue, why not have no 
autozoom on unselect.  It seems like an odd choice.  If someone wants to 
zoom at such a strange moment, they can use their little finger on their 
left hand to hit the z key.  For other users, the autozoom on unselect is 
bound to cause confusion.  Adding "Do not autozoom on unselect" as an 
option means that you have to explain it which creates unnecessary work.

Mike