From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: marka@pobox.com (Mark Alexander) Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:45:28 -0700 Subject: [sup-talk] Piping multiple messages Message-ID: 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? :-)