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Article #1865Re: Showing the first message in a sequence
From: Alastair Milne
Date: Fri, 05 May 1989 22:29
Date: Fri, 05 May 1989 22:29
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John Romine <jromine@tertius.ics.uci.edu> writes
>In article <306@odi.UUCP> (Benson Margulies) writes:
>>I wanted a way to show the first unseen message in a folder.
>
>...Right now, you can use modifiers on
>"official" sequences ("first", "last", etc.) so you can say something
>like "scan first:10" to scan the first ten messages. I always thought
>we should accept those modifiers on user-defined sequence names as well.
What you really want is some recursive application of sequence specifiers,
so that the sequence resulting from each can have a further sequence
extracted from it.
Like:
sc unseen:first
sc unseen:first:2
sc unseen:last:5
sc unseen:first:10:last:3 -- ie the unseen ones starting at the 8th
and ending with the 10th.
I'm just using "unseen" as a well-known sequence name. I see no reason
this shouldn't apply to any arbitrary sequence.
Alastair Milne,
UCI
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