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From: scs@vax3.iti.org (Steve Simmons)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Behavior of ' ' considered inconsistant
Summary: Zowie!  Am I seeing a bug?
Message-ID: <1129@itivax.iti.org>
Date: 10 May 89 15:46:14 GMT
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In article <5234@pbhyf.PacBell.COM> rob@PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo) writes:
>In article <1114@itivax.iti.org> scs@vax3.iti.org (Steve Simmons) writes:
>+My reasoning: When a user selects a sorting criteria I feel he is
>+requesting the order for both the display *and* the accessing of
>+messages.
>
>But that's how it is!!! The sort criteria affects both the order of
>listings on the index screen and the  traversal of messages when in
>pager mode. Don't get confused by the message numbers. The message
>numbers used in pager mode are the same message numbers used on the index
>screen. And these numbers reflect the sorted order of messages,
>not the physical order of messages in the file.

Zowie!  Either we are having a major league misunderstanding here or
we've stumbled into a bug.  Take this situation.  I have my mailbox
sorted in Reverse Date Mail Sent.  I have 3 read messages which came
in on the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd.  I have 3 unread messages which came in
on the 4th, 5th, and 6th.  My mailbox display looks like this on
startup:

    N  1  May 6  Sender   Topic
    N  2  May 5  Sender   Topic
 -> N  3  May 4  Sender   Topic
       4  May 3  Sender   Topic
       5  May 2  Sender   Topic
       6  May 1  Sender   Topic

I read message 3 with ' '.  At the end of the message, I hit space again.
It throws me to message 4.  Is this proper behavior?  I want it to go to
message 2, ie, reversed like my sort order.  For the record, I see this
performance on 4.3BSD and System V on a UNIX-PC.

   Steve Simmons         Just another midwestern boy
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