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Re: 2 small annoyances, maybe possible future features?

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On Tue, 14 Jan 2025, Eduardo Chappa wrote:

> On Tue, 14 Jan 2025, D wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 13 Jan 2025, Eduardo Chappa wrote:
>> 
>>> the same happens with error messages. alpine makes sure that you see error 
>>> messages, and it enforces those 3 seconds by locking the program and not 
>>> letting you do anything else. that is what you are experiencing.
>> 
>> Just to expand a bit on this, in case anyone else ever reads this in the
>> future...
>> 
>> After a bit of grepping around the source I found the following on line 121 
>> in
>> the file status.c:
>>
>>    /*
>>     * By convention, we have min_time equal to zero in messages which we
>>     * think are not as important, so-called comfort messages. We have
>>     * min_time >= 3 for messages which we think the user should see for
>>     * sure. Some users don't like to wait so we've provided a way for them
>>     * to live on the edge.
>>     *    status_msg_delay == -1  => min time == MIN(0, min_time)
>>     *    status_msg_delay == -2  => min time == MIN(1, min_time)
>>     *    status_msg_delay == -3  => min time == MIN(2, min_time)
>>     *    ...
>>     */
>>    if(ps_global->status_msg_delay < 0)
>>      min_time = MIN(-1 - ps_global->status_msg_delay, min_time);
>
> oh, this is an interesting finding. there is a variable in the .pinerc file 
> called status-message-delay, which when set to a negative value will reduce 
> the amount of time the message is displayed in the screen.
>
> if you set this value to -2, you will get a delay of 1 second, which will 
> probably do what you want, and that way you do not have to rebuild alpine to 
> get this behavior.
>
> i hope this helps.

I did try the compile strategy and it worked perfectly!

Thank you Eduardo, setting the value in pinerc is an even better solution, 
since I would not have to make the change and recompile when I upgrade 
alpine. =)

Thank you very much!

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2 small annoyances, maybe possible future features? D <nospam@example.net> - 2025-01-13 16:34 +0100
  Re: 2 small annoyances, maybe possible future features? Eduardo Chappa <chappa@washington.edu> - 2025-01-13 21:57 -0700
    Re: 2 small annoyances, maybe possible future features? D <nospam@example.net> - 2025-01-14 19:20 +0100
    Re: 2 small annoyances, maybe possible future features? D <nospam@example.net> - 2025-01-14 22:57 +0100
      Re: 2 small annoyances, maybe possible future features? Eduardo Chappa <chappa@washington.edu> - 2025-01-14 20:15 -0700
        Re: 2 small annoyances, maybe possible future features? D <nospam@example.net> - 2025-01-15 09:54 +0100

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