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From: nsb@THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM (Nathaniel Borenstein)
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Subject: Re: Yet Another Suggested Message System Feature
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Date: 26 Feb 91 14:19:24 GMT
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Excerpts from internet.info-andrew: 25-Feb-91 Yet Another Suggested
Messa.. Garrett Wollman@griffin. (1297)

> I recently realized that I would be nice if the ``Explain what it is''
> option in Messages (and dirinfo in cui) gave, in addition to the number
> of messages, some accounting of the size of the folder.  For example, I
> recently noticed that I had two copies (different versions) of the
> RTF-to-ATK converter (thanks, Fred!), which were wasting quite a bit of
> space.

I'm not sure exactly what you mean -- do you mean the equivalent of the
"du" command on the folder directory, but not recursing into
subdirectories?  This will be somewhat costly, as it will involve a stat
call for each message in the folder, unless there's a way to do it that
I'm not thinking of.

> While I'm at it, a slightly easier request.  How about a
> ``GnuTranspose'' preference for text which would allow the user to
> select the (much more familiar) GNU convention for ^T, namely, exchange
> @point and @(point-1), rather that the (Gosling?) convention currently
> employed.

This  an MIT vs CMU style issue.  I believe that Bill Cattey implemented
MIT-style ^T long ago, perhaps he can tell us how you can get it. 
(Personally, like all right-thinking people, I've long since customized
Gnu Emacs to use CMU-style ^T, the way Andrew does.)


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