From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: johnbent@lanl.gov (John Bent)
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 23:22:54 -0700
Subject: [sup-talk] 0.5 thoughts
In-Reply-To: <1201240480-sup-1977@south>
References: <1201240480-sup-1977@south>
Message-ID: <1201241373-sup-5327@tangerine.lanl.gov>

Excerpts from William Morgan's message of Thu Jan 24 22:59:43 -0700 2008:
> Here are a couple things I'm interested in working on for an 0.5
> release:
> 
> - Mbox filehandle closing (currently every mbox gets its own filehandle
>   which is kept open for the duration of the program)
Is this a good thing?  I'd rather set my open filehandle limit really high
and have them kept open.  Isn't it slower to constantly have to reopen them?
Well, I guess the unusual ones certainly don't need an open handle.

> - Date conversion to the local timezone, for sorting and display
Yeah, there's something wrong with my timestamps.  Everything shows up as
PM.  The time is right but it always says PM in the display...

> - Notes. Like draft emails without a recipient, but treated specially
>   by the UI. Never sent; just for local use.
> - gpg-hook for auto-selecting sign/encrypt/both based on whatever you
>   want.
> 
These would be nice.

> Any critical issues for people that they'd like to see addressed?
> 
I don't know what your philosophical feelings are about this but it 
might be nice to combine IM into sup.  It'd be a bunch more protocols 
to incorporate and the model might be completely different though.

Also, is there a way to go from one thread-view directly to another?  I always
have to 'x' to go back to the search-results-mode or the inbox-mode and   
then scroll to the message I want.  I thought 'n' and 'p' would do this
but I've never been able to get them to do anything for me.  Maybe I'm
just not understanding something?  In case it's not clear, I want the 
functionality of the 'Newer' and 'Older' links in gmail.

Thanks again for all your hard work.  I'm very happy about sup; it's made me
much more productive and much better organized.  I really appreciate the
efforts of you and all the other contributors.