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Re: howto mark a mbox as read?



Adeodato Simó (2004-11-06, 03:34):
> > macro index y 
> > <tag-pattern>~N<enter><tag-prefix><clear-flag>N<untag-pattern>~A<enter>
> 
>   two small remarks:
> 
>     1. s/tag-prefix/tag-prefix-cond/ will make the macro not fail when
>        there are no tagged messages. yes, in this case it probably won't
>        make much of a difference since you probably won't call the macro
>        unless you *see* there are some new messages.

<tag-prefix-cond> is better, but AFAIS still undocumented. (@Rene
you wanted to update the documentation? -> 20040721143111.GR6640@xxxxxxxx)

>     2. IIRC, I once discussed with Myon on irc that in this case ~T
>        makes a better <untag-pattern> that ~A. we were surprised but the
>        time needed to perform the untaggin was significantly smaller for ~T.

ACK.

For the sake of completeness:

macro index y 
<tag-pattern>~N<enter><tag-prefix-cond><clear-flag>N<untag-pattern>~T<enter>

Hendrik