[sup-talk] Beginner questions

From: yanghatespam@gmail.com (Yang Zhang)
Subject: [sup-talk] Beginner questions
Date: Sun, 04 May 2008 22:08:27 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <481E6C1B.6050408@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1209949098-sup-4287@buckwheat>

Daniel Wagner wrote:
> Excerpts from yanghatespam's message of Sun May 04 17:47:50 -0700 2008:
>> If sup's thread-grouping is decent, then it would be neat/more accurate 
>> to extend sup somehow to instead use these groupings for the filtering. 
>>   I.e., if an incoming message is grouped with a thread in which I was a 
>> participant, then leave it marked unread; otherwise, mark it read.
> 
> Well, sup already has a pretty nice (and similar) feature for killing
> entire threads.  The '&' key will archive a thread permanently; that is,
> if new mails arrive in that thread, they will automatically be archived.
> So, you can hit '&' once for each thread you don't want to read; the
> rest will reappear in you inbox as new mails arrive in them.
> 
> It's a bit inverted from what you want, but maybe it will do?  In any
> case, if you want to extend sup, you should look at how that key works.

I do need to deal with a large volume of mail, so it's not really what 
I'm looking for, because (1) I'd be doing this all day long, and (2) 
it's error-prone - I can easily kill a relevant thread.  BTW, Gmail has 
had this feature in the form of the 'm' key (for "mute").

> 
>> (6) Scrolling through the buffer that is immediately presented to me 
>> when starting sup, I only see about 3 pages of threads.  Is this 
>> correct?  How do I get to the rest?
> 
> The 'M' key will load more threads.

Thanks.

> 
> Good luck!
> ~d
> 
> P.S. I'm running a slightly old version of sup, so the actual keys might
> not be '&' and 'M' any more.  '?' should list the available commands at
> any time.
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