Re: [9fans] acme mail "feature"

[rog@vitanuova.com]

> Does anyone find it useful that acme mail highlights the
> incoming mail, deselecting whatever was previously
> highlighted?
[...]
> It's happened enough times that I'm pretty sick of
> this "feature."  I'll hunt it down and squash it
> if others agree.

it's probably an automatic consequence of inserting new text.  if you
want to avoid it, you'll have to add code to set the selection back to
what it was, but i'm not sure how easy that'll be when the user might
be changing the text too.

personally, this hasn't bitten me much.  what i would like though is
some way of tagging messages.  it'd be nice to know which messages i
haven't read, for example (i've missed important emails in the past
when receiving lots of mail), and i'd like to be able to tag mail
items as "needs further attention"/"must reply".

but the thing that most needs fixing (for my usage pattern anyway) is
the way that upas/fs reads the entire mailbox into RAM. i get around
this by periodically archiving my mailbox, deleting all but the most
recent 6 month's worth of messages, but i'd prefer not to do this.

all that said, i think the combination of acme mail and upas/fs
is excellent, and i wouldn't use anything else!