Hi, Thanks, these are all very helpful. I wasn't aware of the refile -link trick. Anyway, I'll write the script to sort by thread myself. I just thought someone has already done it.
Moshe * Jerry Peek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020911 19:41]: > Jerry Peek wrote: > >MH/nmh messages are stored in files, one > >message per file... so it's reasonably simple to write programs that > >rearrange the messages in whatever order you want. > > Two more maybe-obvious tips: > > If you want to sort a folder that already exists -- without using links > to a new folder -- you can refile _into the current folder_, past the > last message. For instance, if the current folder has 479 messages, a > command like this: > > refile 1 10 12 @. > > will make message 1 into message 480, message 10 into message 481, and > message 12 into message 482. The "@." is a relative folder pathname > that stands for "the current folder," no matter what its name is. > > Another tip, for whatever it's worth: there are a few ways to > search/sort/whatever all un-refiled messages. One way is to make a > sequence with the source messages, like this: > > mark -add -zero -sequence source all > > Then, as you continue to reorder messages, the sequence named "source" > will hold only the un-moved messages. > > You also can use ranges like first-487 to match all messages between the > first remaining message and message 487 (which was the last message in > the original folder, as I mentioned above). For instance: > > pick source --in-reply-to '<message-id>' ... > or > sortm -textfield ... first-487 > > Jerry > -- > Jerry Peek, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jpeek.com/ > >
