Possible Pine Sorting Bug

[Philip R. Hair]

Hi,

I am using Pine 4.61 running on SCO UnixWare 7.1.4 using Wyse 60 terminals.
Most of the users of this system are non-technical, so most configuration
options are set in pine.conf.fixed so that they can't be changed. Here are
what I think are the relevant options:

pine.conf.fixed:

feature-list= disable-config-cmd,

use-function-keys,

pine.conf:

sort-key=arrival/reverse

A user wished to sort email by arrival only: as if 'sort-key=arrival' were
selected.

To do this, I advised her to (from within MESSAGE INDEX) select F7
SortIndex. The system responds:

Choose type of sort, or 'R' to reverse current sort :

F1 Help F3 Subject F5 From F7 Cc F9 siZe F11 scorE

F2 Cancel F4 [Arrival] F6 To F8 Date F10 OrderedSubj F12 tHread

The problem is that R doesn't work! Pine's sort-key is selectable (one can
choose Subject, Arrival, etc.); it appears that 'reverse' is permanently
set. Is this a bug, or am I missing something?

Thanks in advance,

--Phil Hair

[Eduardo Chappa]

*** Philip R. Hair (antp...@nicfn.common) wrote in comp.mail.pine today:

:) A user wished to sort email by arrival only: as if 'sort-key=arrival'
:) were selected.
:)
:) To do this, I advised her to (from within MESSAGE INDEX) select F7
:) SortIndex.
:) [some text removed]
:)
:) The problem is that R doesn't work!

Hello Philip,

The problem is that Pine does not realize the "R" is a valid command at
that time, because it is only looking for function key commands. I wrote a
small patch that will work around this bug for you, which you can get from
my web page (see below).

--
Eduardo
Patches/Help: http://www.math.washington.edu/~chappa/pine/
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[Philip R. Hair]

Dear Eduardo Chappa,

Thanks for the swift patch. Unfortunately, my boss is not eager to update
Pine (and then patch it!) for this small an improvement. Perhaps it will be
useful to others.

Is there a plan to incorporate this change into a future release of Pine? I
feel that it is an easier sell to an update alone, rather than an update and
patch.

Thanks again.

--Phil Hair

"Eduardo Chappa" <cha...@math.washington.edu> wrote in message
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[Steve Hubert]

On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Philip R. Hair wrote:

> Dear Eduardo Chappa,
>
> Thanks for the swift patch. Unfortunately, my boss is not eager to update
> Pine (and then patch it!) for this small an improvement. Perhaps it will be
> useful to others.
>
> Is there a plan to incorporate this change into a future release of Pine? I
> feel that it is an easier sell to an update alone, rather than an update and
> patch.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> --Phil Hair

We will fix pine so that it will be possible to sort/reverse by typing a
function key. This will be in the next version of pine. Thanks.

Steve Hubert
Univ. of Washington: Computing and Communications, Seattle