Re: [nmh-workers] how might I make sequence 'bar' where 'bar' is all but msgs in seq 'foo'?

2019-03-13 Thread nmh
Thanking all of you for the help! On Wed 3/13/19 11:54 +0700 Robert Elz wrote: > | Given a sequence 'foo', how can I get the complement, > | i.e. all messages in the folder, not in sequence 'foo'? > >in your MH profile set something like > > sequence-negation: ^ > >(some people use "not"

Re: [nmh-workers] how might I make sequence 'bar' where 'bar' is all but msgs in seq 'foo'?

2019-03-13 Thread lambda
> Given a sequence 'foo', how can I get the complement, i.e. all messages in the > folder, not in sequence 'foo'? I want to save the results to sequence 'bar'. > > I could write a shell script, but can this be done more directly? You could use "mark -seq bar -zero -delete foo". When used with

Re: [nmh-workers] how might I make sequence 'bar' where 'bar' is all but msgs in seq 'foo'?

2019-03-13 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Tom, kre's correct. Another way is pick -seq bar all mark -s bar -d foo That's an approach that extends to more complex set operations. -- Cheers, Ralph. -- nmh-workers https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers

Re: [nmh-workers] how might I make sequence 'bar' where 'bar' is all but msgs in seq 'foo'?

2019-03-12 Thread Robert Elz
Date:Tue, 12 Mar 2019 20:11:41 -0500 From:n...@trodman.com Message-ID: <201903130111.x2d1bfk5025...@epjdn.zq3q.org> | Given a sequence 'foo', how can I get the complement, | i.e. all messages in the folder, not in sequence 'foo'? in your MH profile set something

[nmh-workers] how might I make sequence 'bar' where 'bar' is all but msgs in seq 'foo'?

2019-03-12 Thread nmh
Given a sequence 'foo', how can I get the complement, i.e. all messages in the folder, not in sequence 'foo'? I want to save the results to sequence 'bar'. I could write a shell script, but can this be done more directly? Thanks for all your work! I would seldom use this, but it would be nice