Rolling My Own

[Janina Sajka]

Hi, Geoff:

I'll check freshmeat re bell replacements.

RE Pine and using the precompiled binaries--they may, in fact, work. But,
I'm leary particularly of rpms that aren't specifically Redhat, though
using the -iv argument usually keeps nastiness from happening.

Main reason, though, is that I want to increase my efficiency in handling
mail. If I stay weith Pine, and it is the one I know best, the first step,
but only the first step for me, is to change the order of summary
information presented in Pine's index screen. I notice that I often judge
messages by their subject--e.g., I tend not to join read threads about
video programming on my linux lists. So, my first step is to hear this
data sooner. My next step is to give myself a hot key that will copy the
subject into Pine's search, delete and expunge routines so that I can
automate dumping the messages I don't care about. My third step, by the
way, will be to hotkey the gravbbing of email addresses from mail and
adding them to a procmail kill file. I get about a dozen garbage mail adds
daily--sex, get rich quick, etc.

Obviously, I can do these things by hand--but that's time consuming. And,
in my mind, whenever I find myself repeatedly doing the same series of
keyboard procedures, my mind always jumps to the though "automate this,
and simplify your life."

				Janina
 On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Geoff Shang
wrote:

> Hi:
>
> I've seen a number of bell replacement schemes on freshmeat.net in the
> console/sound section.  Haven't messed with any of them though so I can't
> comment on their effectiveness or lack thereof.
>
> And you have already been told about the pine indexing stuff so I won't
> rehash that.  Question though, why can't you use the precompiled linux
> binaries on your laptop?  Aren't they statically linked?
>
> Geoff.
>
>
>

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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

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