Re: [Nmh-workers] Relative Message Numbers

[Bill Wohler]

Lyndon Nerenberg <address@hidden> writes:

> On 2013-04-03, at 5:25 AM, Paul Fox wrote:
>
>>    $ scan unseen
>>    ...notice that third-from-end message is spam...
>>    $ refile unseen_3 +spam
>
> I don't think '_' is a very good choice.  It's too commonly used as a word 
> separator in text strings.  Why not use the Git convention: unseen~3 ?

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).

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