Re: [Nmh-workers] exciting new stuff for 2.0

[Paul Fox]

 > > * Threading support. This is one of the obvious things missing from
 > > nmh that just about all modern mailers support.
 > 
 > I'm not that sure about this. After all it's about e-mail not usenet.
 > I have something like 
 > 
 > thread () {
 >         pick -subject $1 -seq thread
 >         scan thread
 > }
 >              
 > which does all I need.

well, it doesn't take the "References" or "In-reply-to" headers
into account.

but more importantly, there's no way to easily view messages in a
sequence (like your "thread", above), sequentially, right?  if
not, then simply getting the message numbers of the thread isn't
all that useful, since i still can't easily read them in order. 

i want to isolate the thread, and then be able to prev and next
through it.  so i think your method might be okay, if there were
a "-seq" option to prev and next, which meant "next in sequence".

(as always, i'm happy to be corrected, if someone can show me
how to write a "threadnext" or "threadprev" alias using existing
tools.)

paul
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 paul fox, address@hidden (arlington, ma, where it's 26.4 degrees)