From: marka@pobox.com (Mark Alexander)
Subject: [sup-talk] Piping multiple messages
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:45:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a412e2a70903241245s20144fd2uec3ccfc84a6b8da5@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Sup has been stable enough that I've pretty much abandoned mutt,
except for one really useful feature it has: the ability to pipe
multiple (tagged) messages to a single pipe. I use this every day to
run cron job messages from nightly tests into a script that produces
pretty summaries. I know, I could get really fancy and try to do this
with procmail, but I need to cut and paste the summaries manually into
a web page.
I was thinking about how to add this feature to sup, and am not sure
what it should look like to the user. There are two ways I can think of:
One way is to tag multiple threads, compress them into a single thread
using '#', open the thread, then use a new a "pipe entire thread"
command.
A simpler way for the user, but perhaps harder to implement, would be
to tag the threads as before, and then use a new "pipe
all tagged threads" command. Unfortunately, the '|' command
at the thread-index level already means "modify search".
Thoughts? Am I the only person in the world who uses this
obscure mutt feature? :-)
next reply other threads:[~2009-03-24 19:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-24 19:45 Mark Alexander [this message]
2009-03-24 21:01 ` William Morgan
2009-03-25 8:58 ` Nicolas Pouillard
2009-03-25 11:11 ` vasudeva
2009-03-25 12:20 ` Nicolas Pouillard
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