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From: swb@chumley.tn.cornell.edu (Scott Brim)
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Subject: Re: mh and sequences
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Date: 21 Dec 90 15:11:34 GMT
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In article <5519@rossignol.Princeton.EDU> tr@samadams.princeton.edu (Tom Reingold) writes:

   for i in `pick select`
   do
	   echo -n 'message $i: '
	   read junk
	   show $i
   done

   ...

The problem with doing this is that you are forced to serialize, you
can't pick and choose out of the sequence(s) selected.  The only
satisfying solution I can find is to front-end MH with GNU emacs, or
maybe XMH, although I like the GNU emacs front-end environment better.
(I know someone who converted to mush because he didn't have anything
X-capable, he didn't want to learn emacs, and he couldn't stand not
being able to pick and choose out of a selected list of messages!)
							Scott