Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca> wrote:
On 2013-04-06, at 4:28 PM, Bill Wohler wrote:
At first I was going to go along, but perhaps we want to reserve the git
terminology in case we do threading which would be a closer analogy
(parent relationship).
Wouldn't threading be handled by external scripts? This sounds like
something I would do by generating a list of message-id and references
headers, then doing a tsort and feeding the whole mess back into scan/show.
That's certainly what we do in MH-E.
We have talked about threading on this forum in the past so I hope it's
somewhere on The List. I don't think it's reasonable to expect users to
have to write such scripts themselves to have threading.
Actually, now that I think of it, since threading is usually a toggle,
we can use ~ and ^ whether threading is enabled or not. If it's enabled,
these characters operate upon the thread; if not, they operate on
previous messages.
I agree with you; I definitely prefer these over the underscore which
seems more like a word separator than an operator.
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