Hi,
Thanks, these are all very helpful. I wasn't aware of the refile -link
trick. Anyway, I'll write the script to sort by thread myself. I just
thought someone has already done it.
Moshe
* Jerry Peek <jpeek(_at_)jpeek(_dot_)com> [020911 19:41]:
Jerry Peek wrote:
MH/nmh messages are stored in files, one
message per file... so it's reasonably simple to write programs that
rearrange the messages in whatever order you want.
Two more maybe-obvious tips:
If you want to sort a folder that already exists -- without using links
to a new folder -- you can refile _into the current folder_, past the
last message. For instance, if the current folder has 479 messages, a
command like this:
refile 1 10 12 @.
will make message 1 into message 480, message 10 into message 481, and
message 12 into message 482. The "@." is a relative folder pathname
that stands for "the current folder," no matter what its name is.
Another tip, for whatever it's worth: there are a few ways to
search/sort/whatever all un-refiled messages. One way is to make a
sequence with the source messages, like this:
mark -add -zero -sequence source all
Then, as you continue to reorder messages, the sequence named "source"
will hold only the un-moved messages.
You also can use ranges like first-487 to match all messages between the
first remaining message and message 487 (which was the last message in
the original folder, as I mentioned above). For instance:
pick source --in-reply-to '<message-id>' ...
or
sortm -textfield ... first-487
Jerry
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