[Alpine-info] Alpine display problem

[Mike Miller]

On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:


> I think you're seeing more problems than there are. The only time I see 

> auto-zoom being unintuitive is in the specific case that the original 

> poster presented: when all messages are selected, and you unselect an 

> individual message with ':', it auto-zooms. There's no other time that 

> using ':' causes auto-zoom. So, it's not a matter of choosing ';' vs 

> ':'. It's a matter of ':' behaving consistently (modulo technical issues 

> with zooming).

>

> Maybe you don't use ';' very often, but I find that any time I'm 

> searching for messages, it's desirable to zoom in on those messages, 

> rather than keep them spread across multiple screens. Do you find that 

> behavior unintuitive or confusing (honest question)? I'm sure it's a 

> preference for a reason, but I would think the majority of users want 

> that. (hence, it's the default)



I agree with this.  If a new user does a search in a big index and four 
messages are selected and Alpine doesn't auto-zoom, how will the user find 
the selected messages?  I think that would be much more confusing than 
having default auto-zoom.

Mike