On 18. April 2014 19:37:45 MESZ, sebb <[email protected]> wrote: >See: https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56427 > >I originally thought I could use -10 to mean read latest 10 messages, >but -1 is already taken to mean read ALL messages. > >So I'm wondering what others think about the idea of using say '_10' >to mean latest 10 messages? > >And '=10' to mean message number 10. > >These seem reasonable to me, but some may find these counter-intuitive. > >Other suggestions welcome.
I think it would be nice to be able to give a range or a list of messages to fetch. We could use [1..10] or [-5..-1] for the first ten, respectively the last five. For lists we could use a simple comma or comma plus a round bracket like (1,4,10) for the first, fourth and tenth message. But on the other hand I think it will get quite complicated when we want to support more advanced features. Regards Felix > >e.g. would it be better to have more radio buttons instead of special >prefixes? >[One advantage of a single text field is that it can be provided as a >variable] > >Thoughts?
