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Re: add a column to the pager



On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 11:08:04AM EST, Christoph Berg wrote:
> Re: Vincent Lefevre in <20040309111008.GS16556@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> > > It's also worth noting that if you simply use the x-label header to hold
> > > information for pattern matches, you can construct an x-label like this
> > > instead (assuming your terminal is about 80 chars wide), and avoid having
> > > to touch the source:
> > > 
> > > X-Label: somebody (5K) some boring subject                                
> > >        |+|-+-|+| some_tag_to_match some_other_tag_to_match
> > 
> > But I don't think that one can grep the X-Label contents to put
> > partial information in the index (like a score).
> 
> I think David wanted to suggest that /if/ you are currently using
> X-Label for tagging messages (rather than displaying its contents in the
> index), you could use the first N columns of it to be displayed
> (%20.20y), and the remainder for tags. Otherwise, you loose, especially
> with %Y (in contrast to %y).

Thanks for clarifying my Daveglish [1] ;-)

> Patching mutt to recognize "X-Label-2:" headers shouldn't be too hard; a
> generic mechanism to handle this stuff would be nice, though.

Yeah, I was kinda hoping somebody would propose this :-)

 - Dave

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http://www.bigfatdave.com/me/glossary.html

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