Re: [Nmh-workers] A script for threading

2006-02-07 Thread Oliver Kiddle
Paul Fox wrote: it occurred to me yesterday that this script might be quite useful (instead of just pretty :-) if it had one simple feature: the ability to add each thread to a separate, temporary, mh sequence (t1, t2, t3, ...). the output would then include Instead of creating, multiple

Re: [Nmh-workers] A script for threading

2006-02-07 Thread Joel Reicher
Instead of creating, multiple sequences, I use a script which just creates a single sequence given a message number to start with. It's a zsh function I'm afraid. Cut down to the essentials, it is as follows: local -a msgs refer ref rep mid msgs=( ${@:-cur} ) ref=( $(scan -width

Re: [Nmh-workers] A script for threading

2006-02-07 Thread Josh Bressers
I think that if you want to keep the threading support out of the main nmh utilities (scan/show/etc) you need to at least add an option to them to respect the order of message numbers on the command line. (But I still think that actually having the core utilities know about threads would be

[Nmh-workers] addtoseq, bug 4301 (was Re: Sequences implementation)

2006-02-07 Thread Oliver Kiddle
Ralph Corderoy wrote: Yes, I'm hitting it daily and having to work around it. Given the increase in space and time of computing resources, it's now practical to have +inbox containing thousands of emails and have a script that picks them into many different sequences in reasonable time

Re: [Nmh-workers] A script for threading

2006-02-07 Thread Peter Galbraith
Josh Bressers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It may be worth looking at this and expanding on the idea: http://jmason.org/software/mhthread/ I ran across that some time ago and played with it a bit. I like the idea, but it could use some refining. See also the 3rd screenshot here: