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Re: mutt/2142: <untag-pattern> with empty argument does nothing



The following reply was made to PR mutt/2142; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Thomas Roessler <roessler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: mutt/2142: <untag-pattern> with empty argument does nothing
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 09:39:19 +0100

 On 2005-11-24 00:15:01 +0100, TAKAHASHI Tamotsu wrote:
 
 >  So, <limit> with an empty argument should not show all
 >  messages if you mind the inconsistency. I thought the
 >  current behavior was intuitive for beginners, and my patch
 >  was applied at revision 3.15 in pattern.c. See bug#1854.
 
 I can live quite well with the current limit behavior -- it is,
 as you say, possibly easier for beginners, and the notion that
 "no limit" corresponds to "all messages" makes a lot of sense.
 Plus, it's safe, and it's reasonably easy to get back to a
 limit in case someone is indeed confused.
 
 Still, that doesn't keep me from limiting to "~A" all the time.
 
 What I'd be opposed to is to start extending that behavior ("no
 pattern" = "~A") to any other pattern-based function.
 
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 Thomas Roessler                              <roessler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>