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From: ewiles@netxcom.UUCP (Edwin Wiles)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Behavior of ' ' considered inconsistant
Message-ID: <1243@netxcom.UUCP>
Date: 12 May 89 15:42:18 GMT
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Reply-To: ewiles@netxcom.UUCP (Edwin Wiles)
Organization: NetExpress Communications, Inc., Vienna, VA
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In article <1150@itivax.iti.org> scs@vax3.iti.org (Steve Simmons) writes:
>In article <1241@netxcom.UUCP> ewiles@netxcom.UUCP (Edwin Wiles) writes:
>>In some article long forgotten I think Steve Simmons wrote:
>>>  My mailbox display looks like this on startup:
>>>
>>>    N  1  May 6  Sender   Topic
>>> -> N  2  May 5  Sender   Topic
>>>       3  May 4  Sender   Topic
>>
>>And I say that what elm is doing wrong is that it is NOT starting with
>>it's pointer on message #1.
>
>Hey, I can answer that one!  Elm has a *feature* that causes it to
>point to the oldest unread message on startup.  This feature is
>controlled by the 'pointnew' setting in your elmrc file.

Okay, If I turn that 'feature' off, will ELM still set the pointer to the
first new message?  Or will it *always* start me out at message #1 regardless
of whether Msg #1 was new or not?  If the latter, then I believe the feature
was written illogically.

Logically:  You wish to read your messages in the order in which you've had
them sorted.  Therefore a "point to new" feature should point to the FIRST
NEW article in the sorted list.  Which in your example above would be #1.

If it is the case that you wish to read them in reverse order from that in
which you sorted your messages, then I'd say that you're out of step with
a large part of the world.  In which case you are invited to write the code
for that option yourself and offer it to Syd for inclusion.

					How's that?
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