[mew-int 00692] Re: Recurisve visit?

[David A. Panariti]

Hi,

For perusing multiple folders, you could take a look at Mew's virtual
folder mode (in the info).  It does somthing like what you are looking
for.  You may need to write some code to automate your folder
gathering, since it looks like it always wants to prompt for a list of
folders to virtualize.
This is based on a quick glance at the info file, so there may be some
gotchas (or, more likely, useful features) that I missed.

regards,

davep
>>>>> "M" == M Warner Losh <imp at example.com> writes:

M> I use mh to sort my incoming mail into folders like so:

M> a/freebsd/announce has 1 message (1-1).  a/freebsd/mobile has 1
M> message (1-1).  a/freebsd/so has 1 message (1-1).  a/jp/linux-ce
M> has 1 message (1-1).  a/linux/elks has 1 message (1-1).
M> a/netbsd/kern has 1 message (1-1).  a/rfc has 1 message (1-1).
M> a/sony/s505 has 1 message (1-1).  a/spam has 1 message (1-1).
M> a/freebsd/hackers has 2 messages (1-2).  a/freebsd/security has 2
M> messages (1-2).  a/freebsd/small has 2 messages (1-2).
M> a/jp/98tester has 2 messages (1-2).  a/netbsd/arc has 2 messages
M> (1-2).  a/netbsd/mips has 2 messages (1-2).  a/netbsd/pkgsrc has 2
M> messages (1-2).  a/openbsd/src has 2 messages (1-2).  a/root has 2
M> messages (1-2).  a/warm-fuzzy has 2 messages (1-2).
M> a/freebsd/perforce has 3 messages (1-3).  a/linux/mips has 3
M> messages (1-3).

M> Note that this is my kernel mail, which is only a subset of the 80
M> or so lists that I'm on.

M> What I've been doing is g a/free<tab>/ann<tab> (reading mail) g
M> a/free<tab>/mo<tab> (reading mail), etc.  All this extra typing can
M> easily triple the time it takes for me to get through all the mail,
M> especially when I have a large number of folders like now where I
M> have only a few messages each.

M> What I'd like is for there to be a way to visit all these folders
M> recursively, pruning the ones that don't have messages in them, so
M> I can read them serially, with something like 'q' or c-Cc-Q or
M> something killing the current buffer so the next buffer in the
M> stack is visited.

M> It would also be nice if these folders were sorted by some criteria
M> (I usually go larges number of messages to smallest), but that's
M> not a huge deal.

M> Is this possible with mew version 2.1?  Or newer mews?  If not, are
M> there hooks or functions that would help me on my journey?

M> I use slocal right now to do the sorting.  Are there better (and
M> automatic) mew ways to do the sorting so that I can do the sorting
M> at pop time rather than at mail delivery time?  I don't even want
M> to see the mail when I pop until I go to that folder, so some of
M> the automaticly file stuff doesn't seem to be appropriate (or I
M> don't understand it well enough).

M> Thanks much for for hints and tips that you can provide me.

M> Warner

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