i just discovered that the 'F'ind function seems to be broken in the latest   
   golded+... this is the first time that i've really needed/wanted to use it...   
   i was looking for messages from a certain individual but none were ever   
   found... i was searching, with 'F', for 'john smith' without the quotes...   
   nothing would be found... even if i was currently on a message to or from john   
   smith... if i searched for just 'john' or just 'smith' then it worked...   
   apparently the search doesn't work with spaces??   
      
   the second thing i found that doesn't seem right is that 'F'ind only looks   
   from the current message to the last message... there's no option to search   
   from the first message to the last... that really should be fixed... maybe to   
   always search from the first message to the last or to offer an option of   
   'all' or 'new' to search... it is rather painful to have to enter each message   
   area, jump to the first message, then 'F'ind, then manually move to the next   
   message to 'F'ind again...   
      
   and that brings me to the last ugly... it would be extremely nice is the   
   'F'ind would offer an option for areas to search... tagged, all, or current...   
   with over 200 areas, painful in the above statement is just being nice :)   
      
   oh yeah, these options should also apply to the 'Z - look in headers only'   
   option...   
      
   THOUGHTS:   
   the two separate search functions could be combined into one 'F'ind or   
   'S'earch option where several search phrases can be put into a search set and   
   there could be multiple search sets looked for with the choices of 'all' or   
   'new' messages in 'all', 'tagged' or 'current' message areas... selecting   
   which header fields to look in as well as the body of the message is a really   
   good thing, too...   
      
   eg:   
     search for:   
       "john smith" in the FROM: field AND   
       "jane doe" in the TO: field   
       in 'all' messages in the current area   
      
     OR   
      
     search for:   
       "jane smith" in the FROM: and TO: fields AND   
       "john doe" in the FROM: and TO: fields AND   
       "meeting your cousin" in the SUBJ: field AND   
       "vinnie" in the message body   
      
      
   in another reader (now open source and also written in C/C++), you hit the   
   search key which opens a window with a list of "search sets" to look for...   
   you hit INSert to add a new search set... that opens a window where you input   
   your search phrases for this search set... each search phrase has options that   
   apply only to it... type in the first phrase, "john smith", and hit enter...   
   that opens the options toggle list for this phrase... choices are   
      
     B - msg body   
     F - FROM:   
     T - TO:   
     S - SUBJ:   
     K - kludges   
     ----- plus -----   
     W - whole words only   
     C - case sensitive   
     ! - should NOT be present (cannot be used with more than one field)   
      
   once you have toggled the options that apply to the current phrase, you hit   
   ESC to go back to the phrases list window so you can enter more phrases and   
   toggle the options for them... these phrases are AND searches... the first   
   "search for" example above would look like this in the phrases list...   
      
      
        phrases              options   
        ------------------------------   
        john smith           -F--- ---   
        jane doe             --T-- ---   
      
      
   so we're looking for "john smith" in the FROM: field AND "jane doe" in the TO:   
   field... hit ESC to return to the list of search sets... that window now looks   
   like this...   
      
      
    1. john smith   (-F--- ---) & jane doe   (--T-- ---)   
      
      
    --------------------------- search options ------------------------------   
    AREAS: ALL       MESSAGES: ALL       DIRECTION: FORWARD   
    ACTION: READ   
    =========================================================================   
    ENTER= Edit  INS= Add Item  ALT-O= search Options  CTRL-ENTER= search   
      
      
   if you have another search set to be looked for at the same time during this   
   execution, hit the INSert key to add it with its phrases and their options...   
   these additional searche sets are OR searches... searchset1 OR searchset2 OR   
   searchset3   
      
   hitting the 'O'ptions key from the search sets window brings up the following   
   list of options to perform with the search sets...   
      
     AREAS  : Current or All or Tagged   
     MSGS   : New or All   
     DIR    : Forward or Backward   
     ACTION : Read or Mark or Delete or Write or Copy or Move   
      
       Read let's you read the messages as they are found...   
       Mark tags the messages for later functions...   
       Delete deletes the messages... maybe with confirmation?   
       Write saves the messages to a given file name...   
       Copy copies the messages to a selected area...   
       Move moves the messages to a selected area...   
      
   these options apply to all matching messages found in the sets... when Read is   
   selected and a matching message is found, you land in the normal reading mode   
   and can perform most all normal functions... you cannot search again because   
   you are already in a search... when you are finished reading a message, you   
   can hit ESC to abort the search and return to the search sets listing window   
   OR you can hit the next key to go to the next matching message in the   
   search... you can only go forward through the search results which are already   
   chosen by the DIRection of the search... you can hit ESCape at any time to   
   abort the search and return to the search sets list window... if you want to   
   edit a search set, you hilight it and hit enter... to edit a phrase, hilight   
   it and hit enter... you always land in the fields selection list when you hit   
   the ENTER key while in the phrase entry field... you can ESC the phrase entry   
   field to not change any of the current phrase or its settings...   
      
   in the search sets listing window, the two example searches from above would   
   look like this...   
      
      
    1. john smith (-F--- ---) & jane doe (--T-- ---)   
    2. jane smith (-FT-- ---) & john doe (-FT-- ---) & meeting your cousin (---S-   
   ---) & vinnie (B---- ---)   
      
      
    --------------------------- search options ------------------------------   
    AREAS: ALL       MESSAGES: ALL       DIRECTION: FORWARD   
    ACTION: READ   
    =========================================================================   
    ENTER= Edit  INS= Add Item  ALT-O= search Options  CTRL-ENTER= search   
      
      
   both sets will be searched for at the same time... not one set and then the   
   other... messages are displayed in the order they are found no matter which   
   set they match...   
      
   )\/(ark   
      
   ... Dateline NY: Enraged Cow Goes After Unsuspecting Farmer With Gun.   
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