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Article #9341Re: misalignment in summary with 100+ messages
From: kyle
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1991 22:26
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1991 22:26
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Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM writes:
> >>>>> On 17 Oct 91 08:25:53 GMT, jerry@math.ep.utexas.edu (Jerry) said:
>
> Jerry> I suppose it would be safe to assume that 1000+ messages is very, very
> Jerry> unlikely, but there could be an option to handle 1-99 or 1-999
> Jerry> messages
>
> -----VM 5.31 (beta): INBOX 1441 (of 1441) IHLPZ 1:03pm Mail {read}----All
>
> and it's been that way for two years...
>
> VM perhaps could compute how many leading blanks it
> needs by just checking (length (int-to-string
> (vm-whatever-vm-last-message-number-is-called))) [or
> maybe use format [...], instead of int-to-string...
> as perhaps folks like having those message numbers
> in hex or octal...!]
How about binary? Roman numerals? Surely no one really wants to use
hex or octal... ?
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f6829,5be9b4ed9406ab8 X-Google-Attributes: gidf6829,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-10-19 08:08:19 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!wendy-fate.uu.net!bug-vm From: kyle@wendy-fate.uu.net Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.vm.bug Subject: Re: misalignment in summary with 100+ messages Message-ID: <9110182226.AA10239@wendy-fate.UU.NET> Date: 18 Oct 91 22:26:05 GMT References: <1991Oct17Th1410420n.Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM> <9110170825.AA20392@banach.math.ep.utexas.edu> Sender: bug-vm-request@uunet.uu.net Lines: 24