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Article #256Re: minor mush enhancements
From: Barton E. Schaefer
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1989 02:21
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1989 02:21
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In article <370@kauai.ACA.MCC.COM> duanev@kauai.ACA.MCC.COM (Duane Voth) writes:
}
} When I have 20 pieces of new mail its a bit of a hassle to
} count down the new mail list figuring out the number of the
} letter I want to read first. Could the new-mail list be formatted
} with hdr_format just like the 'h' command does?
On line 330 of signals.c, in function check_new_mail():
330 char *p2 = compose_hdr(last_msg_cnt++) + 9;
Remove this ^^^^
You may also want to fiddle with the sprintf() format on line 336.
If you don't want to mess with the source, you can try
set newline="await | from"
but that "hangs" mush in "await" if you hit newline when there isn't
any new mail. (Not necessarily undesirable, I suppose.)
} Second, sometimes I like to save a letter in some folder and then
} leave it in my system mailbox along with other unread mail. I have
} "hold" set but unless I specifically 'preserve' the letter I just
} 'save'd to the folder, when I quit, the letter gets put in mbox
} and deleted from my system folder.
The letter gets saved in mbox? Really? I can't figure out any way that
could possibly happen. What should happen is that it gets deleted, and
that's it; saved messages are marked for deletion by default. You can
set the variable $keepsave to prevent deletion, but they should never
get saved to mbox.
If you have $autodelete set as well as $hold, odd things happen, but
saving in mbox isn't one of them. It isn't documented anywhere that I
know of, but setting both $autodelete and $hold doesn't make sense --
neither $keepsave nor $hold nor sleet nor hail will stay $autodelete
from its appointed rounds :-) so all read mail will be deleted unless
you "preserve" it.
By the way, if there is anyone out there who just couldn't go on living
without $autodelete, speak now -- we are strongly considering removing
it from the next release of mush.
} I guess I'm asking that "hold"
} be expanded to automatically preserve saved letters.
That's what $keepsave is for. If you don't have $autodelete set, try
setting $keepsave and see if that's what you want. Otherwise, you
can do
cmd save 'save \!* | preserve'
If you DO have $autodelete set, get rid of it. You'll still need
$keepsave, but at least your .mushrc will make more sense. ;-)
--
Bart Schaefer "A Yellowbeard is never so dangerous as when he's dead."
-- Graham Chapman, 1941-1989
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucsd!ogccse!schaefer From: schaefer@ogccse.ogc.edu (Barton E. Schaefer) Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush Subject: Re: minor mush enhancements Message-ID: <5334@ogccse.ogc.edu> Date: 29 Oct 89 02:21:10 GMT References: <370@kauai.ACA.MCC.COM> Reply-To: schaefer@ogccse.UUCP (Barton E. Schaefer) Organization: Oregon Graduate Center, Beaverton, OR Lines: 58