Mike Miller cried from the depths of the abyss...

> On Thu, 25 Feb 2010, Mike Miller wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Mr. B-o-B wrote:
>> 
>>> I have started using Alpine to my Usenet activities, and I cannot for the 
>>> life of me figure out how to make it default to bottom post when I reply 
>>> to a message.
>>> 
>>> Any ideas how to config Alpine to when I reply the cursor will goto the 
>>> end of the message, and not start at line 1?
>> 
>> 
>> I am on the Alpine list and can ask there.
>
>
> They reminded my of the "_CURSORPOS_" token that can be placed in the 
> signature file.  It's a good way to deal with this.  We had a few messages 
> about it back in November 2008.  See below.  Also look for CURSORPOS here:
>
> Note that an Alpine documentation pages on signatures has this token 
> misspelled as CURSORSPOS.  Apparently there are a gazillion of these secret 
> keywords:
>
> http://saul.baizman.net/node/63
>
> Mike
>
>
>
> Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 20:02:29 -0600 (CST)
> From: Mike Miller
> To: Alpine Forum List <alpine-info at u.washington.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Alpine-info] Reply Top Posting
>
> On Thu, 27 Nov 2008, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 26 Nov 2008, M.RossARR wrote:
>> 
>>> Pine & Alpine offers the signature to be at the top or bottom via:
>>> Setup-Config
>>> [ -Reply Preferences- ]
>>>     [X]  signature-at-bottom
>>> 
>>> I will assume most users set it for bottom! Makes sense!
>>> 
>>> Yet when reply is triggered, the cursor is always found at the top
>>> waiting to type, so off goes the writer top posting! It's natural!
>>> 
>> 
>> If you include in your signature the special token _CURSORPOS_, you can 
>> choose where the cursor is placed when replying.
>> 
>> Using what seems to be your signature as an example, you would change it to 
>> everything between the lines of hyphens here:
>> 
>> ---------------------------------------
>> _CURSORPOS_
>> 
>> --
>> The Best to You & Yours,
>> M. Ross All Rights Reserved
>> mrossarr at nixsyspaus.org
>> ---------------------------------------
>> 
>> Combine it with the signature-at-bottom option, and it should behave as you 
>> want.
>
>
> Nobody replied to the above, so I'm resending it in the hope that it will be 
> noticed.  It is amazing what features of Alpine have been hidden from me for 
> many years -- maybe I just need to look harder.  The _CURSORPOS_ token is one 
> of them.
>
> Mike
>
>
>
> Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 11:18:17 -0600 (CST)
> From: Mike Miller
> To: Chaitat Piriyastit
> Cc: Alpine Forum List <alpine-info at u.washington.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Alpine-info] Reply Top Posting
>
> On Fri, 28 Nov 2008, Chaitat Piriyastit wrote:
>
>> Err... I am not sure if my post is related or not.  But what I do in my 
>> daily life is to create 4 files in my home directory:
>> 
>> .s1 .s2 .s3 .s4
>> 
>> These are all my signature in plain text file.  And I place my signature by 
>> CTRL+R .s[1-4] in the composer area.
>
>
> It's a little off of the original topic, but I also do what you do.  I start 
> with the cursor on top and I edit the message I am replying to before 
> attaching my message (as above:  I trimmed off a few unneeded things).  This 
> time I am not attaching a signature.
>
> For people who want bottom posting and a signature, the _CURSORPOS_ token 
> looks like an excellent solution to me -- and it requires no modification of 
> the code.  If they don't want a signature at all, but they want bottom 
> posting, they can create a signature that consists only of _CURSORPOS_ and 
> possibly some newlines.  They just need to enable "Signature at Bottom" in 
> the "Reply Preferences" section of Setup -> Config.
>
>   [ Reply Preferences ]
>
>       [X]  Signature at Bottom
>
> So I think Alpine already does what people want it to do.
>
> Mike
>


Thank You all.  The _CURSORPOS_ in the .sig file works well enough for 
what I desire.

Rock on TCLUGer's.

Mr. B-o-B