[Alpine-info] Alpine display problem

[Eduardo Chappa]

On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Mike Miller wrote:


:) The thing that is new is the autozoom on unselect.  If you use ":" to 

:) select all messages in a folder, then unselect one message, at that 

:) point Alpine will autozoom.  Pine does not do that.  The Alpine 

:) behavior is a little confusing and I think it is not needed.


Thank you Mike for your messages. To be completely honest I had not 
realized that there was a change in behavior from Pine to Alpine as you 
point out, but for some reason, I do recall the behavior that is being 
pointed out here as a bug from a long time ago. That is, this is not new 
to me, and moreover, it makes sense. I think it is more effective, 
since normally one wants to deal with the selected messages, not the other 
way around. That's why I have never considered it a bug. That is why I do 
not think of this as a bug, but as a feature.

Having said that, I also think that if you look at the automatic change 
from unzoomed to zoomed might be confusing (if you just concentrate on 
that behavior) but I look at it as a necessity for some other behavior, 
that is, I see it as something needed to trigger something else, which I 
think is desirable, so in my view this behavior does not have the same 
relevance than others are giving to it, and again, in case I was not 
clear, this is just *my* view of this fact, in the same way that I have my 
views about politics, religion, etc. that may or may not agree with anyone 
elses views.

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