Folder List Screen

Pine's Folder List screen is designed to give you easy access to all your email folders. When you first start Pine, it is likely that you will only have a few folders, all on the same host. In that case, your folder list screen looks something like this: 
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| PINE 3.90   FOLDER LIST                       Folder: INBOX  4 Messages |
|                                                                         |
| INBOX                   sent-mail               saved-messages          |
| Art151                  exhibit                 internet                |
| research                                                                |
|                                                                         |
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| ? Help       M Main Menu  P PrevFldr    - PrevPage   D Delete  R Rename |
| O OTHER CMDS V [ViewFldr] N NextFldr  Spc NextPage   A Add              |
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That model of all the folders in one place lined in a row doesn't scale well. For people who use multiple folders on multiple hosts for multiple purposes, the folder list might look more complicated. For example, this is the folder list screen for a user who has multiple inboxes (due to filtering by an external system), a local collection, a remote collection for a specific project and also a news collection. 
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| PINE 3.90   FOLDER LIST                       Folder: INBOX  4 Messages |
|                                                                         |
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|                        Incoming Message Folders                         |
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|                                                                         |
| INBOX               Art151             Art-L        Old-Student-Acct    |
|                                                                         |
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|Folder-collection   ** Default for Saves **          (Local)|
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|                                                                         |
|                     [ Select Here to See Expanded List ]                |
|                                                                         |
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|Folder-collection                                       (Remote)|
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|                                                                         |
|                     [ Select Here to See Expanded List ]                |
|                                                                         |
|                                                                         |
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|News-collection      (Remote)|
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|                                                                         |
|                     [ Select Here to See Expanded List ]                |
|                                                                         |
| ? Help       M Main Menu  P PrevFldr    - PrevPage   D Delete  R Rename |
| O OTHER CMDS V [ViewFldr] N NextFldr  Spc NextPage   A Add              |
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The top line offers information about the current collection and folder. The bottom lines display commands available.

Folder List Commands

Navigating the Folder List Screen: Previous Folder (P), Next Folder (N), Previous Screen (MINUS), Next Screen (SPACE), Where Is / Search for Word in Folder Names

Operations on the Newly Selected Folder: View (V), Delete (D), rename (R)

Folder List Commands: Show Index of the Previously Active Folder (I), Print Folder Listing (Y), Add New Folder (A)

News-Specific Commands: Subscribe (A), Unsubscribe (D)

Global Pine Commands: These commands are active in this and most other Pine screens: Main Menu (M), Show Other Commands (O), Compose New Message (C), Goto Folder (G), Help (?), Quit (Q)

Search for a Word in a Folder Name

The WhereIs (W) command searches through the folder names in the currently active collection and all other collections which are expanded.

View Folder and Folder Index

If you got to the Folder List screen by using the "L" command, then you have a few different options for manipulating your folders and selecting a folder. The two options "View Folder" (V) and "Folder Index" (I) are similar in function (they both get you to a FOLDER INDEX screen) but operate on different folders.

"Folder Index" is something of an escape option -- Pine keeps the same current folder as it had before you saw this folder list and simply displays that current folder. "View Folder" is more of an "open and view" thing -- it makes the currently highlighted folder into the current folder, closes the previous folder and then displays the index of the new folder.

Folder List: 3 Modes

There are three different ways in which you can get to the folder list. The standard method is to just press "L" -- the Folder List command. You can also arrive at your folder listing when going to a folder (G, Ctrl-T) or when saving a message to a folder (S, Ctrl-T). When you get to folder list in one of these alternate ways, all the folder manipulation commands are inoperative -- the only things you can do are navigate to a folder and select it for the task at hand. The save and goto cases both provide a means to exit this screen (press E).

Note: This page has information about the Folder List screen and its commands. To understand how folders and collections work in action, see the informational page about folders and collections. Also see the special instruction pages about Usenet News and Remote Operations.

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