[comp.emacs] rmail positioning to first unread message

gwr@linus.UUCP (Gordon W. Ross) (03/17/88)

I would appreciate an explanation for the inconsistent behavior I
observe with rmail:  It positions the window on the first un-read
message if I am looking at my mail inbox, but when using rmail-input
on some other mail format file the window is positioned on the last
message.  I would like to have an easy fix to make rmail-input always
position the window on the first un-read message.  Evidently rmail can
do it, but I don't yet see how.  Any suggestions?

Also, does anyone know why emacs (18.47) writes to the tty so early in
the start-up initializations?  When I try starting emacs in the
background (on BSD 4.2, "emacs &") it stops for tty output very
quickly.  When brought to the foreground it stays busy for a much
longer time before doing the first "redraw" of the screen.
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