[Alpine-info] top feature requests

[Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik]

:2011-03-04T11:15:Daniel Fetchinson:



> Hi folks,

> 

> (Al)pine is really a great tool, I've been using it happily for about

> 17 years. It makes reading/writing email simple, fast and efficient.

> But there are a couple of quirks that come up from time to time and

> are somewhat annoying but by far not on the level that would make me

> with up (al)pine completely. Consider these as mild annoyances.

> Nevertheless I thought I would share my top list of feature requests

> which would make (al)pine even better in my opinion.

> 

> 1. Tab completion of email addresses using the address book while

> typing To: or Cc: field.


It does that. Even does it through to an LDAP server.

 [X]  Enable Tab Completion  (default)


> 2. Ability to delete attachments from a saved email (while keeping the

> email text body).


Hmmm interesting.


> 3. Ability to define default path to save attachments to. Currently it

> is the directory where (al)pine was launched.


Hmm would be nice but it also does tab completion.


> 4. Ability to save all attachments with a single action, whenever possible.

> 

> I'd say the fact that only 4 mild annoyances came up in 17 years is a

> pretty good testament to the over all design quality and

> implementation of (al)pine.

> 

> Are there others who also stumbled upon these 4 issues?


Also see in my signature where you can actually file these. And if you can write
patches to fix what you need to.

Regards
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