questions about the Previous-Sequence

2020-03-22 Thread Philipp
Hi all Disclaimer first: I'm a mmh-developer and user 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. When and why was the Previous-Sequence

Re: questions about the Previous-Sequence

2020-03-22 Thread Robert Elz
Date:Sun, 22 Mar 2020 15:42:25 +0100 From:Philipp Message-ID: | The first completely covered with the shell history. Aside from what Ralph said, what shell history is that? Consider a user using dash, or some similar shell.Also consider that the commands

Re: questions about the Previous-Sequence

2020-03-22 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Philipp, > 1. in the shell using the same messages again and spare some typing ... > The first completely covered with the shell history. If the arguments given to the last nmh command don't have a side effect then shell history may be useful, but show next:3 scan !$ doesn't achieve

Re: questions about the Previous-Sequence

2020-03-22 Thread Philipp
[2020-03-22 14:58] Ralph Corderoy > > 1. in the shell using the same messages again and spare some typing > ... > > The first completely covered with the shell history. > > If the arguments given to the last nmh command don't have a side effect > then shell history may be useful, but > > show

Re: questions about the Previous-Sequence

2020-03-22 Thread Ken Hornstein
>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

Re: questions about the Previous-Sequence

2020-03-22 Thread Conrad Hughes
One of the things I use it for is "unseeing" a message. Let's say I see someone has emailed me, I'm about to go out, want to take a peek at the message but don't want to mark it as seen — or alternatively I look at a message, think "gosh that's gonna take a lot of work to deal with" so want to