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From: frank@ladcgw.UUCP (Frank Mayhar)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Behavior of ' ' considered inconsistant
Summary: How about a new command?
Message-ID: <377@ladcgw.UUCP>
Date: 9 May 89 17:32:39 GMT
References: <1415@lokkur.UUCP> <5222@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>
Reply-To: frank@ladcgw.UUCP (Frank Mayhar)
Organization: Bull HN Los Angeles Development Center
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In article <5222@pbhyf.PacBell.COM> rob@PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo) writes:
}In article <1415@lokkur.UUCP> scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons) writes:
}+When using the space bar in the index page, the direction of travel is
}+always downwards (to higher number messages).
}+If you have your 'sorting' criteria set up by date, that's fine -- you
}+proceed thru your unread messages from oldest to newest.  But if you
}+have the order reversed (newest is 1, oldest is max) using the space
}+bar to navigate thru messages does the opposite of what you want.  For
}Perhaps, it's what *you* want, but not necessarily what everyone wants.

It's certainly what _I_ want.

}[...] Does Steve mean they should be traversed in mailbox order or does he
}mean they should be traversed in date-sent (or date-received order)?
}If the latter, what do we do when someone chooses to sort by subject,
}or reverse-subject, or one of the other sort modes?
}I dunno. Seems more natural to me to have the sort criteria govern both
}the index screen and the traversal of messages in pager mode. My $.02.

I, too, have been bitten by this.  My suggestion is that there be a new
command in pager mode, analogous to space, that traverses the mailbox in
whatever order the user specifies, by default the sort order.  Controlled
by a new option (say, traverse-order), that may be set to any of the values
of sort-order.  If left unset, it uses sort-order.  How does that sound?
It would certainly solve my problem, and Steve's as well.  AND, it would let
Rob do what he wants, too.
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