On 2013-04-06, at 6:31 PM, Bill Wohler wrote: >> But how do you set or track state on a modeless set of command-line tools? > > Add a profile entry to the context file?
It still gets very complicated. Where is the use case that mandates this be supported in the core tools, vs. providing the hooks for the end user to implement their own threading model? I don't accept "it's hard" as an answer. If someone can only deal with an easy solution, pretty much every other MUA out there already serves their needs. If we are going to fix this, it needs to be done in a way that's programmatically friendly, and which exposes all of the message and folder structure in a way that makes it possible for people to write powerful and complex thread manipulators. And given an expressive interface, it's trivial to write the simple set of tools that most people equate with 'thread' manipulation. (Which is most cases is simple Subject header sorting.) --lyndon _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers