Hi Larry, > There appears to be three options - "name:n", "name:+n", or "name:-n", > yet they refer to the 'first or last `n' messages', respectively, i.e. > there are two respective explanations for three options
It's `name:n' where n is a non-zero integer. If positive then it's the first n messages, if negative then it's the last n. In having a quick look at the code, I spotted `name=n', again with n being non-zero. This actually does what I've wanted in the past. (Did I complain and someone add it when I was stuck using an old version? :-) If n is positive then it's the nth message of the sequence, if negative then the nth from the end of the sequence in the other direction, e.g. foo=-2 is the penultimate. There is another difference between `:' and `='. Given a ten long sequence foo, I can foo:42 and foo:-42 and the 42 is clamped to ten. But trying to pick the 42nd of ten is naturally an error, though not a very clear one. Cheers, Ralph. P.S. The Mail-Followup-To header is set; that might help your replies to hit the list. :-) _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
