Thus spake Jon Steinhart: > > > You know, unless I'm missing something, the holes in our messages > > > numbers could be considered a bug. > > This is absolutely not a bug; it's part of a good user interface. It > means that once you know the number of a message you can do things to > it without having to constantly re-scan or re-pick to find it. > Repeatability and habituation are important elements of user interface > design that many seem to not have learned. >
I frequently use nmh exactly this way: I have a scan in one terminal, and refer to the message numbers in it while working in another terminal. If messages were renumbered every time I refiled one, I would be constantly re-scanning instead of dealing with my mail. -- J. _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
