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Re: REPOST: more on vm-get-new-mail

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From: Christopher Davis
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1992 03:44
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Kyle> == Kyle Jones <kyle@wendy-fate.uu.net> 

 Kyle> No one seems happy with vm-get-new-mail, so I think I'm going to
 Kyle> take all of the "smarts" out of it.  It will now only get new
 Kyle> mail.  It won't change buffers.  It won't scramble the window
 Kyle> configuration.  It won't change messages.  It's behavior should
 Kyle> now be entirely predictable.  Acutally I prefer it this way,
 Kyle> since I like dumber commands.

Please make it switchable but predictable.  I'd like to throw a line
into ~/.vm like (setq vm-get-new-mail-goto-first-new-message t) or
whatever, so that I could know that when I hit g it'll move me.

--
Christopher Davis * ckd@eff.org * System Administrator, EFF * +1 617 864 0665
   ``The First Amendment is often inconvenient.  But that is besides the
  point.  Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation
         to tolerate speech.'' --Justice Anthony Kennedy, in 91-155
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From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
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Subject: Re: REPOST: more on vm-get-new-mail
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