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