* Jerry Peek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020924 12:07]: > Moshe Kaminsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I discovered that refile changes the cur message in the source > >directory to be the last refiled message. This means that cur will > >point to a message that no longer exists after refile is done. What is > >the idea? > > After rmm removes a message, cur also doesn't change. That makes > command sequences like this possible: > > % show > % rmm > % next (or: show next) > > Maybe your question is more about the fact that, when refile removes > *multiple* messages, it sets cur to the *last* message refiled, instead > of the first? AFAIK, this is true of most nmh programs -- for instance, > "show 1 3 18" sets cur to 18. > > I think I remember some debate, years ago, about this behavior. The > only conclusion I can remember, though, is "if not the last message, > then *which* message?". Comments, anyone else? > > Jerry > -- > Jerry Peek, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jpeek.com/ >
I think that it's perfectly reasonable that if you refile (or rmm) the _current_ message, then cur doesn't change. However, if you refile some other message (or sequence of messages), why should it affect cur? What I expected is that cur just won't be changed by refile. Moshe
