Re: [9fans] Acme Mail

["Mathieu Lonjaret" <mathieu.lonjaret@gmail.com>]

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I had only replied to the OP because I didn't think other people could
be interested, and I had announced it a while ago already, but here goes
again, just in case.

I patched p9p acme Mail to have a sort by conversation/subject
(http://codereview.appspot.com/264043/show), so if what you want is being
able to delete a bunch of messages with the same subject it's very easy
to do in one mouse swipe once they're all grouped together by this sort.

Of course that does not really help with spam because they won't have
the same subject, only similar ones all matching "viagra", as in your
example.

I've been using it the whole time since then, no issue so far.

Hope that helps,
Mathieu

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From: ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Acme Mail
Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 08:55:10 -0700
Message-ID: <AANLkTimTEnvBf-Eq_-Q8gd2407fQck0idWfyssvpIQl_@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com> wrote:
> i was wrong; it doesn't work. Put doesn't actually delete the messages. i think
> this will require mods to /acme/mail/src/mail.c

we had a back and forth a long time ago about this. I wanted a way to
match a subject and delete all messages on that subject. There was no
apparent way.

the conclusion was that we needed a way to say "middle button action"
in a command line. Russ kindly offered to take a patch if someone
would write it.

So we could say something like
x/viagra/whatever
where whatever corresponded to 'middle-button-Del' or some such.

You can't just change what's in the window AFAIK. That's a reflection
of state, not the state itself.

ron