ralph wrote:
Hi Ken,
You know, I was wondering why I didn't remember the original message
... and that was because it was from 7 years ago!
Yes, I was tackling my large backlog of nmh reading and at some point
switched from my recent large backlog to my old large backlog, I too was
confused about the sudden change in topic. :-)
The OP was talking about thread notation in a scan-style listing. If
there was a show(1) that let one navigate through a sequence then I
guess it could display it too.
(My ~/bin/readlp abuses lesskey(1) so little-used keys in less for
reading email, e.g. D, do "quit ^@", and this is picked up by the script
which then adds it to the "delete" sequence and moves onto the next
email to show. N - next, P - previous, S - spam, etc.)
okay, that's subtle, and very cool. from the lesskey manpage:
"The extra string has a special meaning for the "quit" action:
when less quits, first character of the extra string is used as
its exit status."
nice trick. care to share your readlp script? i use less to read
a pre-formatted concatenation of unread messages, but then i have
to delete the unwanted ones specifically when i'm done. yours sounds
like a nicer solution.
paul
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paul fox, pgf(_at_)foxharp(_dot_)boston(_dot_)ma(_dot_)us (arlington, ma,
where it's 31.8 degrees)
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