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Re: [Nmh-workers] refile's -retainsequences switch

2014-04-21 08:35:09
ken wrote:
I ... do not believe it will result in a functional change.  I think
that problem exists already.  Also ... if you did that, exactly what
are you trying to do, anyway?

I often refile(1) with the source and destination folder the same;
`refile @. 42'.  My +inbox is ever growing, ~/bin/sc does a scan of the
last `tput lines` - 1 of messages.  If I want to collect emails I'm
about to process to the bottom of my inbox then I `refile @. ...'.

Hm.  Does that happen to work with 1.6?  I ask because I think you'll

i just tried it, since i do that same operation pretty often.  it
works fine.

paul

get a locking failure now, even if you aren't using -retainsequence.
It looks like all folders are opened with locking set ... and I think
that would cause sequence file lock contention.  Would be nice to
get that resolved before 1.6 goes out the door.

--Ken

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