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From: jns@fernwood.mpk.ca.US (Jerry Sweet)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: mh and sequences
Message-ID: <9012210938.AA03646@fernwood.mpk.ca.us>
Date: 21 Dec 90 09:43:51 GMT
Lines: 48
In-Reply-To: Your message of 20 Dec 90 18:21:00 +0000.


Well, as far as going one-at-a-time through a sequence, most persons
tell me to use mh-e with Gnu Emacs, but I have this csh script, called
"consider", that sort of gives you what you want.  To use it, just
type something like this:

	consider `pick -subject cerebus`

It then creates and pushes to the folder +consider.  This folder
contains symbolic links to all the selected messages.  You can then
step through the messages any way that you like.

When you're done, just use

	folder -pop

				cut here
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#!/bin/csh -f
# consider - create a folder for a sequence of messages
# jns, 5/9/89
# modified 6/21/90 by jns to do a few sanity checks.
# modified yet again 10/12/90 to display only the top folder

set considerf=~/Mail/consider

if (-e $considerf) then
  rm -rf $considerf
endif

if ( $#argv > 0 ) then
  set messages = ( `mhpath $*` )
else
  echo "no messages to consider"
  exit 1
endif

if ( $#messages > 0 ) then
  mkdir $considerf
  ln -s $messages $considerf
  folder -push +consider > /dev/null
  folder first > /dev/null
else
  echo "no messages to consider"
  exit 1
endif

folder -fast