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- From: mbn@skeletor.hf.intel.com (Mike Northam)
- Subject: Re: Help reorder VM folders
- In-Reply-To: kyle@crystal.wonderworks.com's message of Thu, 19 Nov 1992 13:27:45 -0500
- Message-ID: <MBN.92Nov20081656@skeletor.hf.intel.com>
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- Reply-To: mbn@greyskul.hf.intel.com
- Organization: Shorter Software Solutions
- References: <MUN.92Nov19101045@mun.corp.hp.com> <PHS.92Nov16100845@cassiopee.imag>
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 13:16:56 GMT
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- >>>>> "kyle" == Kyle Jones <kyle@crystal.wonderworks.com> writes:
-
- kyle> mun@corp.hp.com writes:
- > Philippe> Is there an easy way to painlessly reorder VM folders ? What
- > Philippe> I'd like would be a way to view a VM-summary and tell "move
- > Philippe> mail#3 after mail#7". Anybody has written such an extension?
- >
- > There is a way to do this, but I can't think of it right now.
-
- kyle> vm-move-message-forward (ESC C-n)
- kyle> vm-move-message-backward (ESC C-p)
-
- > However, there is a problem with it. The order of the messages are
- > kept in the _header_ of the first (physical) message of your mail box.
- > So, if after _arranging_ your mail messages, you happen to
- > delete the first message...you loose your _re-arranged_ order.
-
- kyle> This shouldn't happen. The header is stuffed into the new first
- kyle> message in the folder, if there is one. There may be a bug that
- kyle> prevents this from happening, though.
-
- Well, when I use vm-move-message-backward, for example to get a folder in
- the order I want it, my changes aren't saved (even if I do an 'S' to save
- the folder). When I revisit the folder, it's in the original order.
- (vm-version is 5.32 (beta))
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