On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 21:40:29 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) Michael A Chase
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
MAC> > So what will be the format for a vfolder? A text file containing the
MAC> > lines like
MAC> >
MAC> > other/folder/name: uid1,uid2,uid3uidN
MAC>
MAC> That may be dificult to manage if the search result set is too large.
MAC> I was thinking more like:
MAC>
MAC> search/results/folder1:
MAC> uid1<TAB>source/folder1
MAC> uid2<TAB>source/folder1
MAC> uid3<TAB>source/folder2
MAC> search/results/folder2:
MAC> uid4<TAB>source/folder1
MAC> uid5<TAB>source/folder3
MAC> uid6<TAB>source/folder3
If folder[12] are different folders, then why would this be in the same
file? And if not, I don't understand the above, sorry.
Again, suppose we have some virtual folder called vFoo. It contains uid1
from the folder Bar and uid2 from another folder Baz. I propose to store
vFoo on disk as
Bar: uid1
Baz: uid2
because this is the most compact way I can think of. But this loses the
message ordering unless we save it separately. Do I understand correctly
that you propose something like this:
uid1: Bar
uid2: Baz
instead, i.e. N-th line of the file contains the N-th msgno of vFoo?
If you do, I agree so no need to argue ;-) If you meant something else,
I'd be grateful if you could explain it.
MAC> We could even take advantage of filters by having messages being added to
MAC> one vfolder causing the entry to be copied or moved to another vfolder.
Sorry?
MAC> A default search folder would be handy for most searches, but why not have
MAC> multiple search result vfolders? If I am following several topics, I could
MAC> want to keep the search results for them in seperate vfolders. Right now,
MAC> I create multiple real folders with copies of the messages I am interested
MAC> in.
But I do want to have several search folders. I just don't think they
should appear in the tree. Anyhow, here is what I propose:
1. add a radio/choice control to the search dialog with the following
choices:
a) select matching messages
b) append the results to the global "Search results" folder
c) open a new "search results" (notice the small 's' :-) folder
2. after search:
a) if no messages are found, nothing is done
b) if only one message is found I'd rather go directly to it
and not do anything else, but I don't know how to present
such choice in the GUI (as a separate checkbox "only if more
than one match"?)
c) otherwise we do what the user has chosen
3. the global "Search results" folder appears in the folder tree, saved
to disk (in the format above) and its properties may be edited as for
any other folder
4. the temporary "search results" folders don't appear in the tree but use
the options of the folder being searched (what to do when searching
multiple folders?) and are _not_ saved to the disk
Is it globally ok?
Thanks,
VZ
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