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From: kyle@uunet.uu.net (Kyle Jones)
Subject: Re: Following C code in emacs
Organization: UUNET Technologies, Inc
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 17:18:37 GMT

karthikm@seqp4.sequoia.com (Karthik Muthukrishnan) writes:
 > I am looking for a way in emacs to follow multiple layers of C code 
 > in a way that by a keystroke I can move up one level each time
 > to finally come to where I started.

It would be nice if there were a global mark ring in addition to
the existing local mark ring.  The buffer information is already
in the markers, so it sounds really easy to implement.
From: karthikm@seqp4.sequoia.com (Karthik Muthukrishnan)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
Subject: Following C code in emacs
Date: 8 Apr 92 19:47:53 GMT
Article-I.D.: seqp4.1217
Organization: Sequoia Systems, Marlboro MA

My previous posting did not have my email address, so here it is again:

I am looking for a way in emacs to follow multiple layers of C code 
in a way that by a keystroke I can move up one level each time
to finally come to where I started. To illustrate what I mean, Lets say
there are three functions func{1-3}() in files func{1-3}.c. I use tags
to successively read functions func1, func2 and func3 like so:

	func1() /* in  file func1.c */
	{
	   func2();
        }


	func2() /* in file func2.c */
	{
	   func3();
	}

	func3() /* in file func3.c */
	{
	   func4();
	}

	.. etc.

At this point I might want to walk up and down the stack to figure out
what the code is doing (what context func3() is called from etc..). 

I know I can (and do) use 'register-to-point and 'point-to-register
functions in emacs lisp, but I am really tired of having to keep track
of stack depth. Is there a better way to do this?

Please email responses to me and I will post a summary if I get
usefull feedback.

Thanks in advance. 

My email address is karthikm@sequoia.com
From: tom@smart.bo.open.de (Thomas Neumann)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
Subject: Emacs 18.58 on NeXT ?
Date: 11 Apr 92 20:17:32 GMT
Organization: News at smart

Hello,

I experienced some problems compiling Emacs 18.58 on NeXT. In particular,  
there are problems with unexec and the NeXT's executable format (Mach-O,  
neither a.out nor coff or elf). This introduces further problems to all  
functions that are involved in "dumping" Emacs.
If anybody has successfully worked around these problems I would greatly  
appreciate if he would send me the patches or point me to a place where I  
may get them.
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
From: rshouman@chpc.utexas.edu (Radey Shouman)
Subject: finding display from inside emacs
Organization: The University of Texas System - CHPC
Distribution: gnu.emacs.help
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 92 21:07:17 GMT

While running emacs under X, I would like to be able to get the value
of the -display parameter that emacs was called with, so that I can,
for example, put it into the process-environment variable.  I haven't 
been able to find any convenient, elisp way to do this.  Any help would
be appreciated.

--Radey


-- 
Radey Shouman					rshouman@chpc.utexas.edu
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
From: moore@src.bae.co.UK (Chris Moore)
Subject: find locked emacs files in shell
Organization: Gatewayed from the GNU Project mailing list help-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 09:07:45 GMT


>>>>> In article <1992Apr3.011910.4927@cirrus.com>, jill@cirrus.com (Jill Wilker) writes:

> The documentation that I have mentions that Emacs records
> after the first modification in a special directory reserved
> for this purpose.... where is this special place, can I read
> the info there?

The path used to store this information is #defined as PATH_LOCK in
<emacs_dir>/src/paths.h.  To find out what <emacs_dir> is at your site, you
can probably type C-h i C-x C-f, and <emacs_dir> is the stuff up to the
info directory.

That directory should contain files which look something like this under
dired:

  /home/aipapp/gnu/emacs-18.57/lock:
  total 99
  -rw-rw-rw-  1 moore    aip    5 Feb 10 14:09 !local!jimmy!atari!vi.ref
  -rw-rw-rw-  1 moore    aip    5 Feb 10 14:09 !local!jimmy!atari!vi.ref.nl
  -rw-rw-rw-  1 moore    aip    6 Feb 29 21:47 !local!jimmy!xtank!Src!newfile.c
  -rw-rw-rw-  1 moore    aip    6 Feb 29 21:50 !local!jimmy!xtank!Src!x11.c

Chris.
--
Chris Moore
Advanced Information Processing Dept
Sowerby Research Centre, British Aerospace PLC, FPC 267, P.O.Box 5, Filton
Bristol, BS12 7QW, UK.     Tel (0)272 363375 Fax(0)272 363733 Telex 449452
Email moore@src.bae.co.uk
From: jbw@csd.bu.edu (Joe Wells)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
Subject: Re: Hiding lines under vm
Date: 11 Apr 92 23:21:12 GMT
Organization: Boston University Computer Science Department
In-reply-to: raman@cs.cornell.edu's message of 10 Apr 92 21:31:02 GMT

In article <1992Apr10.213102.25973@cs.cornell.edu> raman@cs.cornell.edu (T. V. Raman) writes:

   I use vm under emacs, and wonder if anyone has code that will
   selectively hide lines preceeded by say ">". This would be extremely
   useful for following conversations on mailing lists etc. 

This has been done for GNUS in the package gnus-hide.el.

Yet another reason why the news reader and the mail reader should be one
and the same.

-- 
Enjoy,

Joe Wells <jbw@cs.bu.edu>
Member of the League for Programming Freedom --- send e-mail for details
Xref: sparky gnu.emacs.help:2353 comp.sys.sgi:6668
From: simon@lia.di.epfl.ch (Simon Leinen)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Silicon Graphics keyboard setup
Date: 5 Apr 92 13:14:37 GMT
Followup-To: gnu.emacs.help
Organization: DI-LIA -- Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
In-reply-to: rlm@ms_aspen.hac.com's message of 4 Apr 92 01:17:11 GMT
X-Md4-Signature: 1a394c0f60f1a8ff4deddb4f9293c9bd

In article <9204041717.AA02297@indigo2> rlm@ms_aspen.hac.com (Robert L. McMillin) writes:

   Has anyone out there reading this list got a set of hacks to make
   the Indigo (really, any SGI keyboard, since they're all the same)
   keyboard switch the backspace key to mean delete?

You could put the following in your $HOME/.xsession file:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
case `uname` in
  IRIX)
	xmodmap -e 'keysym BackSpace = Delete' -e 'keysym Delete = BackSpace'
	;;
esac
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Note that using xmodmap, you can even remap the caps lock key to
function as a control key (see man xmodmap)...
-- 
Simon.
Xref: sparky gnu.emacs.help:2334 comp.emacs:1963
From: thu@huedv.sta.sub.org (Thomas Huppertz)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs
Subject: Re: memory management in emacs:
Keywords: garbage collection, memory management, large .emacs
Date: 7 Apr 92 21:42:55 GMT
Reply-To: thu@huedv.sta.sub.org
Followup-To: gnu.emacs.help
Organization: HUPPERTZ EDV-Beratung, Thererstr. 10, 8083 Mammendorf, Germany

raman@cs.cornell.edu (T. V. Raman) writes:

[...many stuff in load-files ...]
>When I start up emacs, it takes up about a minute to start, and starts
>garbage collecting even before the .emacs is done loading.

>Is there any way of allowing emacs to use more memory so it does not
>have to go garbage collecting so often?

The best way is, to load all the stuff (others need, too) into emacs
and dump a new 'loaded' Emacs. 
Some days ago, I did this for our tailored emacs with new modes, and a
lot of .el's, and now emacs really comes up at keyclick without
wait-time.

A little problem was, that I had to enlarge the 
    #define PURESIZE
in the config.h and afterwards to build a new emacs.

-- 
==================== Gruss: === Thomas === Huppertz  ========================
       HUPPERTZ EDV-Beratung, Thererstr. 10, 8083 Mammendorf, Germany 
               Tel. ++49-8145-1569, Fax. ++49-8145-8286 
====== EMail:=== thu@huedv.sta.sub.org === (oder: huppertz@guug.de) =========
From: mark@drd.com (resident.alien)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
Subject: Re: Substituting words in Emacs (was Substituting words in vi)
Date: 13 Apr 92 18:25:46 GMT
Article-I.D.: drd.1992Apr13.182546.6107
Distribution: na
Organization: DRD Corporation

related but different, is there a short functional equivalent of the vi 
'dw' or 'cw' commands?  I use 'em all the time and absence of the ability
to do so in emacs is a minor irritation.
-- 
mark.lawrence@drd.com                                     (918)743-3013
DRD Corp., 5506 South Lewis Ave., Tulsa, OK 74105         (918)745-9037 fax
From: ethanb@ptolemy.astro.washington.edu (Ethan Bradford)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
Subject: Re: emacs RMAIL error
Date: 16 Apr 92 07:10:53 GMT
Organization: U. of Washington
To: harelb@math.cornell.edu (Harel Barzilai)

In article <9204130108.AA09612@poly.math.cornell.edu> harelb@math.cornell.edu (Harel Barzilai) writes:

   if you use "narrow-to-region" and then "widen" rmail is confused about
   reading the "babyl"-format file and you're suddently editing the whole
   thing in your buffer.

The problem is that RMAIL uses the "narrow-to-region" command to limit
the display to one article in your mail file.  Since there is no stack
of narrow commands, your widen undoes both your narrow and RMAIL's narrow.


   I just "save-buffer", kill it, and re "M-x rmail <return>"

   But maybe there is a better way or even a fix for future versions?

Any command which causes RMAIL to select a new message will narrow the
region back down to one message, e.g. "n", "p", ">".
--

-- Ethan (ethanb@u.washington.edu)
From: rbhumbla@ucsd.edu (Ravinder Bhumbla)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
Subject: Re: Ange-ftp, .netrc problem [SOLUTION]
Followup-To: poster
Date: 15 Apr 92 02:45:01
Organization: UC San Diego, AMES Department
Distribution: usa
Reply-To: rbhumbla@ames.ucsd.edu (Ravinder Bhumbla)
NNTP-Posting-Host: harpo.ucsd.edu
In-reply-to: rbhumbla@ucsd.edu's message of 14 Apr 92 17:43:46

In article <RBHUMBLA.92Apr14174346@harpo.ucsd.edu> I wrote:

#    When I start ange-ftp (by doing a find-file, for example) I get
# the error "Skipping badly configured .netrc".  I am not able to
# figure out the reason for this error especially since it occurs even
# when I do not set any ange-ftp defaults in my .emacs and do not have
# *anything* in my .netrc (I created it by saying touch .netrc in my
# home directory).
# 
#    [deleted]
# 
#    The following is the ls -l of my .netrc (I changed it to u+x to
# see if that helped):
# 
#    -rwxr----- 1 rbhumbla 0 Apr 14 17:16 /home/grad/rbhumbla/.netrc*

I received a reply to this query from the author himself, Andy Norman.
The culprit was the permission on the .netrc.  Ange-ftp needed
only the user to permissions to this file.  Changing the permissions
fixed the problem.

A longer explanation from Andy (along with information about the
ange-ftp-lovers mailing-list follows:

***************************
The code in ange-ftp.el could be a little clearer about why it rejected your
.netrc file I guess.  The checks it does are detailed in the netrc(4) or
netrc(5) man page and are as follows:

          If the .netrc file contains password or account information
          for use other than for anonymous ftp, then its owner ID must
          match the effective user ID of the current process.  Its
          read, write, and execute mode bits for group and other must
          all be zero, and it must be readable by its owner.
          Otherwise, none of the login information is be used.

ange-ftp is even stricter and does the checking even if only anonymous ftp is
specified in the file.  ange-ftp does the following:

  - makes sure that the netrc file is owned by you.
  - makes sure that only you have the right to read/write/execute it.

I can see that the .netrc file above is readable by group, so that will fail
test 2.

I hope this info helps.

If you are interested in ange-ftp, you might like to know that the latest
version (4.2) was released last week, and that there are two ange-ftp related
mailing lists called ange-ftp-lovers and ange-ftp-lovers-announce.  The former
list is where both announcements of new versions of ange-ftp are posted, as
well as discussions about both ange-ftp and FTP in general.  The latter list
just gets the announcements.  You are warmly invited to subscribe to either by
mailing to either me or:

  ange-ftp-lovers-request@anorman.hpl.hp.com
                 ^^^^^^^^
                 don't forget this bit!  ;-)

					-- ange --
***********************
--
Ravinder Bhumbla	rbhumbla@ucsd.edu    U. of California, San Diego
Xref: sparky gnu.emacs.help:2418 comp.sys.hp:5239
From: poirriez@margaux.inria.fr (Vincent Poirriez)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.sys.hp
Subject: MetaKey,emacs18.58,X11R4,hpux8.05 a FAQ but...
Date: 15 Apr 92 11:57:55 GMT
Reply-To: poirriez@margaux.inria.fr (Vincent Poirriez)
Followup-To: gnu.emacs.help
Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt France

In a precedent message I wrote:

>I need some help to install emacs 18.58 on an HP9000/720 running hp ux 8.05
>My problem is that under X11R4, emacs does not know for the meta key.
>It runs perfectly if it is performed via an rlogin without the -display
>option. But if emacs opens it's own window (an hpterm I think), it does not
>recognize the meta key. 
>And I need it as I have azerty keyboards where the characters #{}[]...
>are obtained with that key.

>As my students use vi (because it is the only editor on the machines), it
>would be very helpfull if someone can give some help.

I know that is a FAQ but,
I have done the following suggested modifications(thank for replys):

>> (I have these lines in my .vueprofile)

>>xmodmap -e "clear control"
>>xmodmap -e "add control = Control_L"

>>xmodmap -e "clear mod1"
>>xmodmap -e "add mod1 = Meta_L"
>>xmodmap -e "add mod1 = Meta_R"
 And it does not work neither than the following:
>>  xmodmap -e "clear control"  -e "add control = Control_L"
>>  xmodmap -e "remove mod1 = Mode_switch"

These lines in my .vueprofile do not fix the problem on the hp 9000 720
running vue. 
Moreover:
I have to precise that I use the hp 9720 as a server for 10 X terminals
(HP 700RX with azerty keyboards). As I do not use vue on these terminals (due
to ressources needed), it is X11 that run (mwm). I have done the above 
modifications in my $HOME/.xsession file and it does not work either.

Thanks for any help. My students will appreciate.

Thanks to answer by email at poirriez@margaux.inria.fr

Vincent Poirriez
From: picasso@bass.bu.edu (David Ondzes)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
Subject: emacs/lisp help
Date: 9 Apr 92 20:11:04 GMT
Article-I.D.: bass.PICASSO.92Apr9161104
Distribution: gnu.emacs.help
Organization: /usr2/graduate/picasso/.organization

Hello,

I need some help. Here is what I would like to do. I need to get the
name of the buffer that I am editing. I have just finish writing some info
files on a bunch of C++ classes that are in my library. I what to be able
to define a macro so the it will bring me to the info node of the file I
am editing.

For example, say I am editing the Set.cxx file I want to have a key-sequence
defined so that I will go to Set node in my info file for C++ classes. 

I know how to write macro using 'C-x (' and 'C-x )' and I can make a macro
to to take me to each node but I have to give the node name. How can I grap
the name of the buffer and use that in the macro definition.


Thanks in advance

David Ondzes         picasso@bu-pub.bu.edu
Xref: sparky gnu.emacs.help:2417 comp.mail.mh:690
From: wohler@sapwdf.UUCP (Bill Wohler)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.mail.mh
Subject: unseen sequence (was Re: mh-e sequence question)
Date: 15 Apr 92 09:28:08 GMT
Reply-To: Bill Wohler <wohler@sap-ag.de>
Organization: SAP AG, Walldorf, Germany

jsc@saxon.Eng.Sun.COM (John Cooper) writes:
>Is there any documentation about the unseen sequence? Is it useful?

  i can't help you with the sequences question (which does sound
  annoying--stephen?) but the unseen sequence is useful.
  
  witness the following example.  my mh-folder-mode-hook:

 	(define-key mh-folder-mode-map "b"
		    '(lambda ()
		       (interactive)
		       (mh-visit-folder "+somefolder" "unseen")))

  my .maildelivery delivers non-urgent mail to +somefolder and not to
  my system mailbox.  when i feel like reading the mail, i hit 'b'.
  note that this could be generalized so it doesn't read a hard-coded
  folder.

Bill Wohler <wohler@sap-ag.de> <sapwdf!wohler>
Heidelberg Red Barons Ultimate Frisbee Team
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
From: deng@bnl.gov (dp)
Subject: Shell problem on SGI
Organization: ().:.()
Distribution: gnu
Date: 12 Apr 92 21:42:32

The problem is
************************************************
Warning: no access to tty (Bad file number).
Thus no job control in this shell.
stty: : Inappropriate IOCTL operation
************************************************

Then, how to get the job control in a shell within emacs? I am running
gnu-emacs (18.57.1) on SGI(Iris4d).


Xref: sparky gnu.emacs.help:2371 comp.mail.mh:681
From: jsc@saxon.Eng.Sun.COM (John Cooper)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.mail.mh
Subject: mh-e sequence question
Date: 10 Apr 92 18:52:54 GMT
Organization: SunSoft, Inc., Mountain View, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: saxon

When I do an mh-search-folder, all messages matching the pattern get
marked with a % sign. If I later do another mh-search-folder with a
different pattern, some more messages get marked with %.

It seems that these two sequences are now indistinguishable?

If I call mh-narrow-to-seq, the available sequences contain 2 sequences
named 'search'. How do I distinguish these? If I just say narrow to
sequence 'search', it just narrows to the search sequence last made.

How do I subsequently unmark messages from one (or all) of the searches?
How can I remove the % mark from all messages?

Is there any documentation about the unseen sequence? Is it useful?

Thanks,
--
	--- John S Cooper		OLIT Development, Sunsoft
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
From: dsg@blackbird.mitre.org (David S. Goldberg)
Subject: Re: refiling multiple messages in mh-e
Organization: The Mitre Corp., Bedford, MA.
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 14:41:05 GMT


I tried emailing this, but dv349-6a.berkeley.edu refused connection.
Maybe it'll be useful to someone else, too.

>>>>> In article <C152-BV.92Apr3133335@dv349-6a.berkeley.edu>,
>>>>> c152-bv@dv349-6a.berkeley.edu (Abel Chow) writes:

Abel> This question is regarding mh-rmail in Emacs.

Abel> How do I refile all the messages from a particular person to a
Abel> folder?  There has to be an easier way--I'm currently doing it
Abel> manually.  Thanks.

Use mh-search-folder (I've rebound my keys so much I forget the
default, but it's likely to be M-s) and look for all messages from
your particular person.  mh-search-folder opens a window with
components - you fill them in (well, in your case, you'd just put the
desired address in the From: line) and it tries to match them.  This
creates a sequence called search.  When you give a prefix arg to
mh-refile-msg, it prompts for a sequence - you give it search, and it
refiles the whole thing.
--
Dave Goldberg                      UNIX Systems Programmer/Administrator
Post: The Mitre Corporation MS B020 202 Burlington Rd. Bedford, MA 01730
Phone: 617-271-2460
Domain: dsg@mbunix.mitre.org  UUCP: {your neighborhood}!linus!mbunix!dsg
From: sk@thp.uni-koeln.de (Sebastian Kremer)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
Subject: Re: Shorter filenames in dired
Date: 10 Apr 92 15:43:43 GMT
Organization: Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Cologne, F. R.
	Germany

>>> In article <702727670.17297@minster.york.ac.uk>,
>>> mrp@minster.york.ac.uk writes:

mrp> When using dired (both versions, the one supplied and the one by
mrp> S.Kremer) the file lines include the whole path of the file rather
mrp> than just the leaf name.

mrp> How do I stop this from hapenning?
mrp> ls -al on this system just includes the filenames.

Get a decent ls, such as GNU ls available for FTP in the `fileutils'
tar file from prep.ai.mit.edu:pub/gnu.
--

Sebastian Kremer <sk@thp.Uni-Koeln.DE>
Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Cologne, F. R. of Germany
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
From: marc@watson.ibm.com (Marc Auslander)
Subject: Re: who knows a better way? this is mine
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 22:46:13 GMT
Distribution: gnu
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
	<1992Apr14.161004.15935@solbourne.com>
	<ABRAHAM.92Apr15195058@galilei.iesd.auc.dk>
Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, New York

In article <ABRAHAM.92Apr15195058@galilei.iesd.auc.dk> abraham@iesd.auc.dk (Per Abrahamsen) writes:

>>>>>> On 14 Apr 92 16:10:04 GMT, imp@solbourne.com (Warner Losh) said:

>Warner> ;;; What's wrong with the following:
>Warner> (save-excursion
>Warner> 	(goto-char (point-min))
>Warner> 	(replace-string "^M
>Warner> " "
>Warner> "))

>Warner> ;;; The ^M above should be replaced by a real <CR>

>Try undoing the changes in a large file.  I believe replace-string
>should only be used interactively.

(replace-string "\r" " ") is easier to read.  \r is the escape for return.

Also, if you want to get rid of them rather than replace them with
blanks, (replace-string "\r" "")
--


Marc Auslander       (IBM)<marc@marc.watson.ibm.com>      914 784-6699
                     (Internet)<marc@watson.ibm.com>
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
From: desouza@math.berkeley.edu (Paulo de Souza)
Subject: Emacs with a Wyse60 Terminal.
Followup-To: desouza@math.berkeley.edu (Paulo de Souza)
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Math. Department.
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 21:20:22 GMT

We recently upgraded our Emacs in SUN Sparc 2 Server, and we suddenly 
found out that the arrow keys of a Wyse60 will not work with it.

Apparently the problem is the lack of a file lisp/term/wy60.el (there
are a few there but not any wyses). 

I was wondering if anybody has built such a file, and where one can 
get a hold of it ? Any help would be appreciated.

Paulo de Souza                               desouza@math.berkeley.edu
From: cc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Chris Cooke)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
Subject: Help! Emacs with long X11 display names
Date: 16 Apr 92 15:52:19 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Would some kind person tell me if emacs can be made to understand long 
DNS-style X display names?  For example, instead of emacs just understanding
the display name 

	foobar:0.0

I'd really like it to understand names of the form

	foobar.dcs.ed.ac.uk:0.0

as well.  Currently it doesn't do this, at least not the way I've installed
it - it just gives the message "X server not responding.  Check your DISPLAY 
environment variable."  When I move back to the short form of display name,
it works fine.

I'm using version 18.57 on Sun4, Sun3, DecStation and HP9000.

Hopefully, 
	-- Chris. 	cc@dcs.ed.ac.uk   (on Janet, cc@uk.ac.ed.dcs)

		
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
From: reingold@emr.cs.uiuc.edu (Edward M. Reingold)
Subject: Reverse video in a region
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Distribution: gnu
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 02:27:06 GMT

Sometime ago someone posted a  bit of Elisp code to put a region of a buffer
in reverse video.  Could the poster (or anyone else) either repost it or mail
a copy to me?  Thanks.
--

Professor Edward M. Reingold                  reingold@cs.uiuc.edu
Department of Computer Science                (217) 333-6733
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1304 W. Springfield Ave.
Urbana, IL 61801-2987  USA
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
From: cloos@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (James H. Cloos Jr.)
Subject: Splitting RMAIL by labels
Organization: Cornell Information Technologies, Ithaca, NY 14853
Distribution: gnu
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 06:47:09 GMT

Before I start this project, has anyone done this yet?

Basically what I want to do is write a procedure to look thru my
~/RMAIL file, and append each message to a file that would look
something like ${mail_dir}/${label} (to use sh syntax for variables)
for each label that the message in question is tagged with.  The
message would then be flagged deleted in ~/RMAIL.

Eg., if the message were tagged with (answered,glibc), it would be
copied into the files ``answered'' and ``glibc'' w/in the directory
$mail_dir.

Has anyone implemented anything like this?

Thanks in advance.

-JimC
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James H. Cloos, Jr.		include <std/disclaimers.h>
Cloos@CrnlThry.BITNET           include <std/qotd>
Cloos@Theory.TC.Cornell.EDU	Phone:  +1 716 866-5249
cloos@batcomputer.UUCP		PersonalZipCode:  Amherst, NY  14226-1111