Re: [TUHS] off-topic list [ really mh ]

Hi Jon, Ditto × 2. :-) https://www.nongnu.org/nmh/ Yes, this is key. I don't procmail(1) my emails into folders for later reading by theme, instead I have a shell script that runs through the inbox looking for emails to process. pick(1) finds things of interest, e.g. pick --list-id '<tuhs\.minnie\.tuhs\.org>' I then display those emails in a variety of ways: one-line summary of each; scrape and summarise signal from third-party noise with sed(1), etc., having decoded the MIME; read each in full in less(1) having configured `K', `S', ... to update nmh's sequences called `keep', `spam', ..., and move onto the next email. And finally have read(1) prompt me for an action with a common default, delete, refile, etc. Then the script does it all again for the pick from the inbox. The result is I'm lead through all the routine processing, mainly hitting Enter with the odd bit of `DDDKSD'. A bit similiar to using the rn(1) Usenet reader's `do the next thing' `Space' key. In interactive use, old-MH hands don't type `pick -subject ...', but instead have a personal ~/bin/* that suits their needs. For me, `s' shows an email, `sc' gives a scan(1) listing, one per line, of the end of the current folder; just enough based on `tput lines'. I search with ~/bin/-sub, and so on. Much more flexible than a silo like mail(1) by benefiting from the `programming tools' model. -- Cheers, Ralph. https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy