Epiphany about pine. The "tab"!

From	D <nospam@example.net>
Newsgroups	comp.mail.pine
Subject	Epiphany about pine. The "tab"!
Date	2024-01-20 14:01 +0100
Organization	i2pn2 (i2pn.org)
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Hello alpiners,

I just had an epiphany about the tab-button, that I wanted to share. 
Strange thing is... I've used alpine for at least a year, and I've seen 
the message at the bottom of the screen, but why did it never click?

Anyway...

I've experimentet with alpine as a news reader, and even though it is a 
bit slow compared with tin, and even though I cannot get a counter of new 
messages after the newsgroup name, and even though the "N" indicator is a 
bit clunky, I discovered that pressing tab not only navigates to the next 
group, but it also skips a group if no new messages are there.

Brilliant!

That makes up for some of the slowness, since I can just read, delete one 
message to make the messages above being marked as read, then skip the 
empty groups and land in the next group with new messages.

This has radically speeded up my newsbrowsing since I no longer need to 
enter a group, read, exit the group, select the next one.

So shame on my for not discovering it earlier, but now at least I did, and 
I hope some other aspiring and beginning alpine fan might be saved the 
trouble. ;)

Best regards,
Daniel

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Epiphany about pine. The "tab"! D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-01-20 14:01 +0100
  Re: Epiphany about pine. The "tab"! Daniel <me@sc1f1dan.com> - 2024-06-19 07:07 +0000
    Re: Epiphany about pine. The "tab"! D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-06-19 09:49 +0200
      Re: Epiphany about pine. The "tab"! "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2024-06-19 11:53 +0200
        Re: Epiphany about pine. The "tab"! D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-06-19 15:04 +0200
          Re: Epiphany about pine. The "tab"! D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-06-19 16:17 +0200
    Re: Epiphany about pine. The "tab"! "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> - 2024-06-19 15:29 +0000

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