pine and the char set thing

[Ameer Armaly]

Or, like JFW, you can add a feature to speakup that let's you hit a shift
key and scip ahead in the text.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Hallenbeck" <hallenbeck at valstar.net>
To: "Speakup Distribution List" <speakup at speech.braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 9:11 AM
Subject: pine and the char set thing


> I use pine and I get to see all those char set things too, but I
> do not mind them a lot. What happens is that pine lets you
> configure just one char set as its "official" char set, and when
> an arriving message uses a different one, it warns you about it.
> Perhaps that should be elevated to a "feature" in pine that could
> be turned on or off, but right now it is a fixed behavior.
>
> Users of speakup often listen to their mail "directly" - i.e.,
> spontaneously, as it is placed on the screen. When that happens,
> you cannot just skip ahead three or four lines to get past those
> char set messages. What you can do is to kill the speech when
> those messages start to appear, but then you lose your place and
> must use review keys to go back and find what you would have
> heard if you had just waited for the messages to be read and
> proceed forward with the text. I think some folks do not rely on
> the direct or spontaneous mode, but use review for everything.
> They can easily kill a line they do not want to hear by just
> hitting the "next line please" key. They will not lose their
> place in the material the way people would who rely on direct
> reading.
>
> Anyway I kind of enjoy hearing those messages; it lets me know
> who is still using Windows and who has kicked the habit. :-) If
> David boehlman and others ever figure out how to fix their
> Outlook Express to use the same char set as Pine is using, they
> will in effect be "passing" and we will never ever know for
> sure!!!
>
> So even if it wastes five or six seconds per email, I cannot get
> excited about those pesky messages. If it becomes a selectable
> feature of Pine in a future release, so that it could be turned
> off, I will probably leave mine turned on. People ought to be
> able to use the char set of their choosing as long as it does not
> interfere with the content of their messages.
>
> Chuck
>
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