[2020-03-22 14:53] Ken Hornstein <k...@pobox.com> > >We think currently about removing the Previous-Sequence support for > >mmh. But because we don't use it we are not sure, if we missed some > >aspect of it. Therefor I would like to ask some questions. > > I personally find the previous-sequence rather useful myself (when you > find, for example, the results of "pick" were rather larger than you > expected and didn't put it in a sequence). But that's up to you.
May I ask, why do you prefer it over the history and command line editing? > >When and why was the Previous-Sequence introduced to mh or nmh? > > Looks like it has been around for a while. From mh4/MHCHANGES: > > Mon Jul 16 00:21:52 1984 Rand MH mail system (agent: Marshall Rose) > <mh@uci-750a> > > Install the new Previous-Sequence mechanism. Introduce the SEQMOD > flag to the msgs structure. Just about every MH program now calls > m_setseq () upon parsing the messages and calls m_sync() prior to > exiting. > > Before my time, so I can't really answer the "why". Thanks for this info. Philipp Ps: Please don't put me in to or cc. I'm subcribed to the list and use the list-id field for scan and filtering.