Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!asylum!osc!jgk From: jgk@osc.COM (Joe Keane) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: Re: Yet Another Suggested Message System Feature Summary: I want compress directories. Keywords: compression Message-ID: <4579@osc.COM> Date: 27 Feb 91 23:34:42 GMT References: Reply-To: jgk@osc.COM (Joe Keane) Organization: Versant Object Technology, Menlo Park, CA Lines: 35 In article wollman@kira.UVM.EDU (Garrett Wollman) writes: >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. It seems like this is something you'd only want occasionally. It's fairly expensive, so maybe there should be a script which gives you this information. What i'd really like to see is a hook in AMS to support compressed message directories. I used to compress my message directories, but if i'd forget to uncompress one before appending to the folder, then it'd be in a weird state. So if AMS sees a file, say `.AMS_directory_is_compressed', then it should shell out to some script which puts the directory back the way it should be. Compressing mail works pretty well since it's most English text with some common headers. If you have rasters in your mail it doesn't work so well, since ATK raster are already sort-of compressed. >I imagine this should only mean adding two conditionals to whatever code >implements ^T. [My sources are offline right not, so I can't be more >specific than that.] I think this is better solved by rebinding than a preference option. In article <0bmatgC0M2Yt817nhd@thumper.bellcore.com> nsb@THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM (Nathaniel Borenstein) writes: >(Personally, like all right-thinking people, I've long since customized >Gnu Emacs to use CMU-style ^T, the way Andrew does.) Yes, this is the second most stupid thing about GNU Emacs key bindings. The first is, of course, that backspace is the help key. Brilliant.