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Re: alpine: date format

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On Fri, 13 Sep 2024, Helmut Richter wrote:

> On Fri, 13 Sep 2024, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>
>> On 2024-09-13 10:25, D wrote:
>>> On Thu, 12 Sep 2024, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>>>> On 2024-09-11 21:48, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
>>>>> Mikey dixit:
>>
>>
>>>> I use
>>>>
>>>> 24-09-12
>>>>
>>>> YY-MM-DD
>>>>
>>>> index-format=STATUS MSGNO SHORTDATEISO TIME24 FROM(20%) ADDRESSTO(10%)
>>>> SIZE SUBJECT(75%)
>>>>
>>>>    722 24-08-26 23:36 Mail System Internal              (460) DON'T DELETE
>>>> THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thank you very much Carlos, that really scratched a small itch I've had for
>>> a long time! =)
>>>
>>> I found "ATT" which enables me to see in the index, which messages have
>>> attachments and which messages don't. Up until now, I've always relied on
>>> the size of the message to see if there are attachments, but now I get a
>>> nice nr in the message index, indicating the nr of attachments. Thank you
>>> very much! =)
>>
>> That's an interesting idea, adding 'ATT'. Like you, I used the size.
>>
>> Trying
>>
>> Index Format                      = STATUS MSGNO SHORTDATEISO TIME24 FROM(20%)
>> ADDRESSTO(10%) SIZE ATT SUBJECT(75%)
>>
>> + N 688 22-11-30 20:31 Carlos E.R.          dest@opensu  (4490) 1 Re: Could
>> you check...
>> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ^
>
> I am using pine/alpine at least since 2006, that is for 18 years now, and
> have never come across these options. Meanwhile, I have found
>
>  https://alpineapp.email/alpine/alpine-info/misc/index-format.html
>
> which explains how to configure an index line if you are already well
> acquainted with the "tokens" you can use. Unfortunately, this web site
> takes that for granted (perhaps they find something like SMARTDATE
> self-describing enough that you can easily guess what it means and what
> the alternatives would have been).
>
> Does anyone know where to find a complete list of tokens that can be used,
> preferably with a description what they mean?
>

It is very simple. You go to the index line option, then press ? for help, 
in that article, a link to all tokens is highlighted. Follow that link and 
you have descriptions of all tokens.

I find the help of alpine to be one of its major strengths! The help pages 
are excellent and very often I do not find I even need to google it. I 
think the main google topic I had was setting it up with gmail.

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alpine: date format Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de> - 2024-09-10 18:32 +0000
  Re: alpine: date format Mikey <Mikey.Smith@aol.com> - 2024-09-10 19:30 +0000
  Re: alpine: date format Helmut Richter <hr.usenet@email.de> - 2024-09-11 10:48 +0200
    Re: alpine: date format D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-09-11 18:11 +0200
      Re: alpine: date format Helmut Richter <hr.usenet@email.de> - 2024-09-11 21:39 +0200
    Re: alpine: date format Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de> - 2024-09-11 19:48 +0000
      Re: alpine: date format "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2024-09-12 15:54 +0200
        Re: alpine: date format Holger Schieferdecker <spamless@gmx.de> - 2024-09-13 09:11 +0200
        Re: alpine: date format D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-09-13 10:25 +0200
          Re: alpine: date format "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2024-09-13 14:28 +0200
            Re: alpine: date format Helmut Richter <hr.usenet@email.de> - 2024-09-13 23:04 +0200
              Re: alpine: date format D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-09-14 11:26 +0200
                Re: alpine: date format Helmut Richter <hr.usenet@email.de> - 2024-09-14 12:44 +0200
                Re: alpine: date format D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-09-14 21:57 +0200
                Re: alpine: date format "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2024-09-14 15:01 +0200
                Re: alpine: date format "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> - 2024-09-14 13:20 +0000
                Re: alpine: date format D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-09-14 22:00 +0200
                Re: alpine: date format "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> - 2024-09-14 20:53 +0000
            Re: alpine: date format D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-09-13 23:23 +0200
              Re: alpine: date format "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2024-09-14 15:03 +0200
                Re: alpine: date format D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-09-14 21:59 +0200
          Re: alpine: date format Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de> - 2025-07-03 23:48 +0000
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              Re: alpine: date format Eduardo Chappa <chappa@washington.edu> - 2025-07-04 09:33 -0600
                Re: alpine: date format Chime Hart <chime@hubert-humphrey.com> - 2025-07-04 11:09 -0700
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                Re: alpine: date format William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2025-07-20 16:35 +0000
                Re: alpine: date format Chime Hart <chime@hubert-humphrey.com> - 2025-07-20 11:29 -0700
                Re: alpine: date format William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2025-07-20 22:30 +0000
                Re: alpine: date format "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> - 2025-07-20 22:56 +0000
                Re: alpine: date format Chime Hart <chime@hubert-humphrey.com> - 2025-07-20 20:03 -0700
                Re: alpine: date format Eduardo Chappa <chappa@washington.edu> - 2025-07-23 11:35 -0600

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