[Alpine-info] Alpine display problem

[Matt Ackeret]

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

> Several thoughts:

>

> If you don't select all the messages in a particular mailbox, this won't

> happen. (So if you really want to select everything, just select-all, don't

> toggle through each individual message.) [<-- not a fix, just a workaround]

>

> Zoom is pretty useful in mailboxes with more than 10 messages. (e.g. it'd be

> near-impossible to use Alpine on my INBOX of 32K messages without it.) It

> changes the index display to show the selected messages. (Auto-zoom makes it so

> you don't have to press 'Z' each time you search. A second 'Z' will un-zoom

> [return to normal].)

>

> "Disappear" is only from the display. Nothing happens to the message. So, while

> it's a minor annoyance that I'd call a bug [Eduardo might not ;-)], it's not

> destructive (so I wouldn't call it "awful").


so it's auto-zooming once one has already auto-zoomed, thus making
the message disappear, right?

Maybe auto-zoom should only happen if one isn't already zoomed in.  That
would seem to solve the originator's issue (which I would qualify as
a "usability" bug..  I understand why it's working the way it is, it sounds
like it is working the way it was designed, but it can also be
confusing as heck, as the originator bothered to sign up to the list to
report it..  thanks, btw.)