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Re: "toggle-old"



also sprach Kyle Wheeler <kyle-mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2007.10.10.1305 +0100]:
> That doesn't make much sense to me. If I have a read message and I say  
> "toggle-new", why would mutt assume that I really wanted to 
> "toggle-old"? Perhaps what's needed is a different function?

Sure. I am not talking about toggle-{new,old}, just about the
behaviour I expect. It makes no sense ever to mark a message new if
I already distinguish between new and old.

> Ahhh, right. I guess this gets down to exactly what "toggle-new"
> is supposed to mean. At the moment, obviously, it means "if not
> new, make it new, else if new, make it not-new", which is a very
> straightforward use of the definition of the word "toggle".

Except it's a tri-state and you cannot toggle tri-states. You only
rotate them. :)

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