Re: Reading messages in a sequnce

[aalinovi]

Just a quick thank you to all who took time to respond to my original
question. I've looked at mairix but feel it's a bit too involved for my
needs.  Mr Fox's solution works so that is what I'll go with.

Arthur

aalin...@riseup.net writes:
>If I have non consecutive messages in a given sequence, is there any way
>to read them consecutively?

Re: Reading messages in a sequnce

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi aalinovi,

Paul wrote:
> It's one of mh's hidden gems.  Use "picked:next", "picked:first",
> "picked:last", "picked:prev".  I have wrapper commands that do all of
> those.  "picked:3" and "picked:-2" also work.
>
> It's in mh-sequences(1).

And lots of fine detail is in

https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/nmh-workers/2017-09/msg00014.html
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/nmh-workers/2018-02/msg00171.html

:-)

-- 
Cheers, Ralph.

Re: Reading messages in a sequnce

[Geoff Raye]

pick -seq foo -from o...@the.cat

show foo:first
show foo:next
show foo:next
show foo:last

[aalin...@riseup.net]
> If I have non consecutive messages in a given sequence, is there any way
> to read them consecutively?
> 
> For example, sequence picked with messages 94 95 114 126 155.
> show 94 shows message 94, next shows message 95. But then next shows
> message 96, not message 114 (which makes sense since 96 is the next
> message but it's not what I want).
> 
> With only a few messages this is no big deal as I can just do show 94
> show 95 show 114 etc, If I have a sequence with a significant number of me
> =
> ssages such a
> solution is not practical.
> 
> Thank you

Re: Reading messages in a sequnce

[Paul Fox]

aalin...@riseup.net wrote:
 > If I have non consecutive messages in a given sequence, is there any way
 > to read them consecutively?
 > 
 > For example, sequence picked with messages 94 95 114 126 155.
 > show 94 shows message 94, next shows message 95. But then next shows
 > message 96, not message 114 (which makes sense since 96 is the next
 > message but it's not what I want).

It's one of mh's hidden gems.  Use "picked:next", "picked:first",
"picked:last", "picked:prev".  I have wrapper commands that do all of
those.  "picked:3" and "picked:-2" also work.

It's in mh-sequences(1).

paul
=--
paul fox, p...@foxharp.boston.ma.us (arlington, ma, where it's 68.7 degrees)

Re: Reading messages in a sequnce

[Conrad Hughes]

> If I have non consecutive messages in a given sequence, is there any way
> to read them consecutively?

Not quite what you're after, but if you've got the search indexer mairix
installed (I highly recommend it), it creates search results in their
own temporary folder, so prev and next work sensibly there.

Conrad