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Re: [Nmh-workers] MH-W intro/help request
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David Levine |
Subject: |
Re: [Nmh-workers] MH-W intro/help request |
Date: |
Thu, 04 Dec 2014 10:23:29 -0500 |
Ken wrote:
> (I wonder if a sequence can be completely numeric? Maybe)
If I understand your question: sequence names must start with a
letter. Fortunately. That's documented in mh-sequence(5) and
enforced by the code:
$ mark -seq 42 last
mark: illegal sequence name: 42
$ echo $?
1
> Okay, fine, clearly that's possible ... but the code is not
> structured to take advantage of that.
Agreed. Also, the space-time tradeoffs we'd make now would be
different than those that were made 30+ years ago, and would
no doubt significantly affect that code structure.
pick now calls folder_read() twice: could we remove one of
them, at least sometimes? The first read is without
locking, which is good. But I don't know if we can reliably
bypass the second one for cases where the sequences file was
already up to date. And I don't know if it'd be worth the
complexity to try.
David
- Re: [Nmh-workers] MH-W intro/help request, (continued)
- Re: [Nmh-workers] MH-W intro/help request, Ken Hornstein, 2014/12/05
- Re: [Nmh-workers] MH-W intro/help request, Erich Boleyn, 2014/12/05
- Re: [Nmh-workers] MH-W intro/help request, Ken Hornstein, 2014/12/05
- Re: [Nmh-workers] MH-W intro/help request, Erich Boleyn, 2014/12/05
- Re: [Nmh-workers] MH-W intro/help request, Jerrad Pierce, 2014/12/05
- Re: [Nmh-workers] MH-W intro/help request, David Levine, 2014/12/05
- Re: [Nmh-workers] MH-W intro/help request, Ken Hornstein, 2014/12/05
- Re: [Nmh-workers] MH-W intro/help request, Ken Hornstein, 2014/12/04
- Re: [Nmh-workers] MH-W intro/help request,
David Levine <=
- Re: [Nmh-workers] MH-W intro/help request, Ken Hornstein, 2014/12/04
- Re: [Nmh-workers] MH-W intro/help request, David Levine, 2014/12/04
- Re: [Nmh-workers] MH-W intro/help request, Ken Hornstein, 2014/12/04
- Re: [Nmh-workers] MH-W intro/help request, David Levine, 2014/12/04
- Re: [Nmh-workers] MH-W intro/help request, Ken Hornstein, 2014/12/04
- Re: [Nmh-workers] MH-W intro/help request, David Levine, 2014/12/04
- Re: [Nmh-workers] MH-W intro/help request, norm, 2014/12/04
- Re: [Nmh-workers] MH-W intro/help request, Lyndon Nerenberg, 2014/12/04
- Re: [Nmh-workers] MH-W intro/help request, Earl Hood, 2014/12/04
- Re: [Nmh-workers] MH-W intro/help request, heymanj, 2014/12/04