From: Richard Coleman <coleman@math.gatech.edu>
Cc: ding@ifi.uio.no
Subject: Re: TODO idea:
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 17:32:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199706202132.RAA09649@redwood.skiles.gatech.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 20 Jun 1997 11:16:49 PDT." <m0wf8Et-0006uMC@apple.statsci.com>
> I wonder how hard it would be to get mh/nmh to use different methods to
> decide what a new message is to be numbered...
>
> 1) add a "lastused" sequence to .mh_sequence that it updates and uses to
> determined what the next message is to be called.
>
> 2) add checks to prevent 'rmm' from really deleting the 'last' message?
> Maybe just truncate the file? Or rename it to some special name
> (e.g. "=383" instead of ",383"), then it's existence could be used as a
> marker similar to that "lastused" sequence?
>
> I think I like #1 better.
It would be very difficult to change the way that MH/nmh handles
folders. The code is not very modular. I've been working on cleaning
this up for nmh-0.15.
So it might be possible in the future, but not now.
Richard Coleman
coleman@math.gatech.edu
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-06-20 21:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-06-06 7:00 Wesley Hardaker
1997-06-06 9:29 ` Lars Balker Rasmussen
1997-06-06 11:28 ` Kai Grossjohann
1997-06-06 17:36 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-06-09 8:39 ` Wesley Hardaker
1997-06-10 2:58 ` Jason R Mastaler
1997-06-10 6:58 ` Wesley Hardaker
1997-06-11 3:49 ` Jason R Mastaler
1997-06-11 6:49 ` Wesley Hardaker
1997-06-16 18:10 ` Paul Graham
1997-06-17 15:34 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-06-18 6:58 ` Wesley Hardaker
1997-06-18 12:09 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-06-18 14:55 ` David S. Goldberg
1997-06-19 8:47 ` Wesley Hardaker
1997-06-19 17:37 ` Paul Franklin
1997-06-20 3:58 ` Darren/Torin/Who Ever...
1997-06-19 18:32 ` Scott Blachowicz
1997-06-20 9:12 ` Wesley Hardaker
1997-06-20 18:16 ` Scott Blachowicz
1997-06-20 21:32 ` Richard Coleman [this message]
1997-06-20 22:12 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-06-21 0:08 ` Richard Coleman
1997-06-21 20:29 ` Scott Blachowicz
1997-06-22 13:32 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-06-22 22:24 ` Richard Coleman
1997-06-24 21:11 ` Jason R Mastaler
1997-06-22 23:35 ` Darren/Torin/Who Ever...
1997-06-17 15:33 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-06-25 8:34 ` anonymous
1997-06-25 20:26 ` Paul Franklin
1997-06-26 9:38 ` anonymous
[not found] ` <1997 <19970626093841.17915.qmail@sunsite.auc.dk>
1997-06-26 19:27 ` Paul Graham
1997-06-26 20:40 ` Paul Franklin
1997-06-10 17:52 ` Paul Franklin
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