🚀 go-pugleaf

Steve Baumgarten writes:
 > I'v had difficulty keeping moved messages moved, even when the
 > variable is set to "t".  I tried rearranging my INBOX a bit, and it
 > worked just fine -- until I deleted a message.  Once I did that, the
 > order reverted to the physical order of the INBOX.  This is using VM
 > 5.31 (as distributed, no local mods) under Epoch 3.2 +
 > patches.

There were several bugs in the order retention code.  I think
I've found the one you mention.

 > On this topic, would it make sense to have a command that physically
 > reorders the mailbox with the current ordering/grouping?  It would
 > save some time reordering the mailbox each time it's opened, if
 > nothing else.

Message reordering is generally quite fast at startup, so unless
someone is seeing gross delays I see no point in physically
rearranging the folder itself.

 > Also, a request.  How about if you could mark a bunch of messages and
 > reorder them all at the same time?  Or (perhaps easier to implement),
 > tell VM to drag along the next n messages, instead of having to do one
 > at a time.

I have been thinking about this, but it will have to wait for
more pressing concerns, like getting VM out of beta.

 > Just a thought, though.  By the way, I really like the
 > interface for reordering messages -- very intuitive and easy
 > to use.

You can thank Andreas C. Lemke <andreas@boulder.Colorado.EDU>.
All the ideas for VM's reordering commands were generated from
an e-mail converstaion we had two years ago.