Re: vm-pipe-message-to-command should use marks!?

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From: Steve Baumgarten
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 1991 20:11

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In article <9103061738.AA00778@wendy-fate.UU.NET> kyle@wendy-fate.uu.net (Kyle Jones) writes:

   Not a bad idea.  Implementing it is going to be tricky to do
   without duplicating the messages in memory.  I can't just use
   shell-command-on-region in the folder buffer because marked
   messages may not be contiguous.  Anyone have a serious aversion
   to a temp file?  It's ugly, but it could be the difference
   between crashes Emacs now and crashing Emacs later for those of
   us who have all day to all week Emacs sessions.

I think it's a great idea no matter how it's implemented.  I needed
such a function just this morning and resorted to doing things by
hand.  As there were a lot of messages, things quickly grew tedious.

Duplicating the message list is better... a temp file is better...
just about anything is better than doing it by hand...   :-)

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