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In article <9211191827.AA03924@crystal.wonderworks.com> kyle@crystal.wonderworks.com (Kyle Jones) writes:

> mun@corp.hp.com writes:
>  > Philippe> Is there an easy way to painlessly reorder VM folders ? What
>  > Philippe> I'd like would be a way to view a VM-summary and tell "move
>  > Philippe> mail#3 after mail#7". Anybody has written such an extension?
>  > 
>  > There is a way to do this, but I can't think of it right now.
> 
> vm-move-message-forward  (ESC C-n)
> vm-move-message-backward (ESC C-p)
> 
>  > However, there is a problem with it.  The order of the messages are
>  > kept in the _header_ of the first (physical) message of your mail box.
>  > So, if after _arranging_ your mail messages, you happen to
>  > delete the first message...you loose your _re-arranged_ order.
> 
> This shouldn't happen.  The header is stuffed into the new first
> message in the folder, if there is one.  There may be a bug that
> prevents this from happening, though.

I've always liked this feature, but have never gotten it to work.  I'm now
using VM 5.32(beta) (Epoch 4.2) and whenever I try changing the message
order I get an error.  The error occurs on saving a folder that has been
reordered.  Let me be specific.

I went to a message and typed M-C-p.  It moved up one message.  I typed `S'
to save the folder and got the following error in the minibuffer:

Invalid function: (macro lambda (n) (byte-code "<garbage here>" [n let m (if (< m 0) (-m) m) 3

During previous attempts (using 5.31) I found that a bookmark is created at
the top of the folder, and VM had a problem reading it when reopening the
folder.  I remember it was a parsing error and it said something like "dot
in wrong context".  So I looked at the top of the folder now (after the
above attempt and failure) and found the following in the header:

	X-VM-Message-Order:
		(1X-VM-Bookmark: 64

I deleted it and was able to save the file without error.

Any ideas?  Email would be appreciated.

Howard
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