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vm-preview-lines suggestion

#9563
From: Kyle Jones
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1991 14:17
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Sebastian Kremer writes:
 > I like it that I can have a look at a message without marking it as
 > read when I set vm-preview-lines to a number.  I set it to some number
 > larger than my screen height (e.g. 80) to see everything I can
 > possibly see without actually marking it as read.
 > 
 > However, when I insert my INBOX buffer somewhere else while it is
 > still in preview, only a truncated message gets inserted.  For
 > example, somebody mailed me a shell script, I want to install it, it
 > gets truncated and fails mysteriously.  This is annoying.
 > 
 > I propose to let vm-preview-lines==t mean to not truncate the message
 > at all, but not marking it as read either until I press SPC for the
 > first time.

This is basically what Root Boy Jim talked me into doing not too
long ago.  He had different reasons but it boils down to the same
thing.
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Subject: vm-preview-lines suggestion
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