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>>>>> On Thu, 16 May 91 21:20:49 -0400, kyle@wendy-fate.uu.net said:

kyle> You're pretty close to what I have in mind.  What we'll probably
kyle> end up with is an auto-filter-alist for incoming mail.  The idea
kyle> extends rather nicely.  (Thanks again, Mike.)

OK. That's probably a useful feature :-)

but I would also like a means to more interactively (and easier than
now) file messages.

What I've been thinking of is to extend the mark facility to allow you
to mark messages interactively just in the way the alist thing works
now -- based on field and regexp.  When the messages are marked it's a
simple thing to save them all to the appropriate folder.

The nice thing with this is that the marks are not limited just to
archiving messages but can be used in other ways to. What we will get
is simply a more flexible thing.

Detailed explanation follows:

It could work like this. The interactive mark would prompt you for
what field you want to base the selection on and then it would prompt
you for the regexp.

A good default for the regexp would be the field from the current
message so that you could easily mark messages with the same Subject,
Author etc.

What do you think?

Yours
%% Mats Lidell 
etxmsll@juno.ericsson.se