From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: yanghatespam@gmail.com (Yang Zhang) Date: Sun, 04 May 2008 22:08:27 -0400 Subject: [sup-talk] Beginner questions In-Reply-To: <1209949098-sup-4287@buckwheat> References: <481E5936.7040600@gmail.com> <1209949098-sup-4287@buckwheat> Message-ID: <481E6C1B.6050408@gmail.com> 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. > _______________________________________________ > sup-talk mailing list > sup-talk at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/sup-talk -- Yang Zhang http://www.mit.edu/~y_z/