Bug#2365: Pine erases message before I can read it

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

Dale Scheetz writes ("Re: Bug#2365: Pine erases message before I can read it"):
> On Tue, 20 Feb 1996, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > Package: pine
> > Version: 3.91-4
> >
> > If I configure Pine with no NNTP server, and ask to post news from the
> > main setup screen, Pine beeps and prints a message.  Unfortunately the
> > message is erased before I can read it - I could only read it by
> > holding down the ^T key.
>
> Are you sure that this is the key? This key normaly invokes the spell
> checker. I guess it's not clear to me where you are when ^T is pressed...

Perhaps.  It's possible that the keybindings have changed since my
original report, or that I misremembered or mistyped at some point.

...
> I have had the same problem when ispell was not available on my system.
> Only by asking for spell checking on a continuous basis, by holding down
> ^T (thus my confusion with the above), was the error message presented on
> the screen often enough for my persistance of vision to allow reading.
> Considering all the other "helpful" messages pine plops at the bottom of
> the screen (and leaves there) this should not be happening with error
> messages! I'm not sure there is anything I can do about this, at this
> point, but I can certainly pass this bug up to the developers.

Thanks, that'd be great.

Ian.