Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!elroy!usc!orion.cf.uci.edu!uci-ics!tertius.ics.uci.edu!jromine From: jromine@tertius.ics.uci.edu (John Romine) Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh Subject: Re: Showing the first message in a sequence Message-ID: <12879@paris.ics.uci.edu> Date: 28 Apr 89 16:39:37 GMT References: <306@odi.UUCP> Sender: news@paris.ics.uci.edu Reply-To: John Romine Distribution: usa Organization: University of California, Irvine - Dept of ICS Lines: 14 In article <306@odi.UUCP> (Benson Margulies) writes: >I wanted a way to show the first unseen message in a folder. >In desperation, I came up with the following. Surely there >is a better way. Perhaps someone could clue me in? Sorry, not at the moment. Right now, you can use modifiers on "official" sequences ("first", "last", etc.) so you can say something like "scan first:10" to scan the first ten messages. I always thought we should accept those modifiers on user-defined sequence names as well. I'll probably work on that if I can find the time. -- John Romine ucbvax!ucivax!jromine, jromine@ics.uci.edu UCI ICS Dept.