sometimes pine won't clear screen...

[Patrick J. Collins]

Hi everyone,

It seems that on occasion I will get spam which will have some funky
characters in the subject line that pine doesn't like, and it will
cause opening any emails in my inbox to not clear the screen (making
it quite impossible to decypher). So I had to delete all the spam in
my inbox, quit out and relaunch pine and then it behaved properly with
clearing the screen.

Anyway, I was wondering if there is a way to force pine to clear the
screen and refresh everything?

Patrick J. Collins
http://collinatorstudios.com

[m***@netdirect.ca]

CTRL-L should refresh the screen in pine (and quite a few other programs).

M.
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Michael Brown, Systems Consultant
Net Direct Inc.
[phone] x5106


----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick J. Collins" [***@collinatorstudios.com]
Sent: 27/03/2008 09:55 AM MST
To: "pine-***@u.washington.edu" <pine-***@u.washington.edu>
Subject: [Pine-info] sometimes pine won't clear screen...



Hi everyone,

It seems that on occasion I will get spam which will have some funky
characters in the subject line that pine doesn't like, and it will
cause opening any emails in my inbox to not clear the screen (making
it quite impossible to decypher). So I had to delete all the spam in
my inbox, quit out and relaunch pine and then it behaved properly with
clearing the screen.

Anyway, I was wondering if there is a way to force pine to clear the
screen and refresh everything?

Patrick J. Collins
http://collinatorstudios.com

[Patrick J. Collins]

Post by m***@netdirect.ca
CTRL-L should refresh the screen in pine (and quite a few other programs).

Tried that.. It doesn't seem to do anything on my system....

Patrick J. Collins
http://collinatorstudios.com

[Steve Hubert]

Post by Patrick J. Collins

Post by m***@netdirect.ca
CTRL-L should refresh the screen in pine (and quite a few other programs).

Tried that.. It doesn't seem to do anything on my system....

It probably is redrawing it but it gets drawn weird again.

You might try replacing pine with alpine if that is an option for you.

http://www.washington.edu/alpine/

Steve

[Patrick J. Collins]

Post by Steve Hubert
It probably is redrawing it but it gets drawn weird again.

I think you are right, because now I see that when I hit ctrl-L, the
cursor jumps up two lines and then returns back at the bottom of the
screen.. So definititely something is happening.

It just seems like Pine needs to offer a setting to filter out
special/ctrl-characters from emails, because I've written on here
before about certain spam mail in crazy characters, and if I select
one Pine literally gets stuck in a loop (visual beep on the screen
over and over and over) and I have to close the terminal window.

Patrick J. Collins
http://collinatorstudios.com

[Steve Hubert]

Post by Patrick J. Collins
It just seems like Pine needs to offer a setting to filter out
special/ctrl-characters from emails, because I've written on here
before about certain spam mail in crazy characters, and if I select
one Pine literally gets stuck in a loop (visual beep on the screen
over and over and over) and I have to close the terminal window.

Pine is no longer being developed and the development effort has moved to
Alpine. Alpine can be thought of as pine 5.0 but with a new name and new
license. Perhaps this problem is already fixed in Alpine. If not,
there would be a willingness to try to fix it there. Thanks.

Steve

[Matt Ackeret]

Post by Steve Hubert
Pine is no longer being developed and the development effort has moved to
Alpine. Alpine can be thought of as pine 5.0 but with a new name and new
license. Perhaps this problem is already fixed in Alpine. If not, there would
be a willingness to try to fix it there. Thanks.

Maybe the pine-info mailing list should be deprecated and/or redirected
to alpine-info?

or something like -- if people try to send to pine-info, they get a response
saying that pine is deprecated, with info about alpine & the alpine-info
mailing list?

[Matt Ackeret]

Post by Patrick J. Collins
Anyway, I was wondering if there is a way to force pine to clear the
screen and refresh everything?

Are you on UNIX pine? Isn't ^L (control-L) working? ^L is the almost
universal "redraw the screen" command.

[Matt Ackeret]

Post by Matt Ackeret

Post by Patrick J. Collins
Anyway, I was wondering if there is a way to force pine to clear the
screen and refresh everything?

Are you on UNIX pine? Isn't ^L (control-L) working? ^L is the almost
universal "redraw the screen" command.

btw, the other reply wasn't threaded with the original for some reason, so
I didn't see the reply when I replied.