[comp.mail.mush] Feature suggestion

msir@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Mark Sirota) (04/13/90)

How about ~R!, which would inhibit this message from being recorded in the
"record" folder?
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lmb@vicom.com (Larry Blair) (04/14/90)

In article <6572@ur-cc.UUCP> Mark Sirota <msir@cc.rochester.edu> writes:
=How about ~R!, which would inhibit this message from being recorded in the
="record" folder?

That's a good idea, but an even better idea (IMHO) was a way to partially
inhibit the save.  Elm provides this via an inline control line (it also
provides encryption this way).  That way you could save the part of the mail
that you sent with the 75k long uuencoded program that you might want to see
later without saving all 75k.

Last time I suggested this, Bart and Dan both expressed their displeasure
with the Elm scheme.  Maybe there's a better way, but I have no problem with
mush looking for a line with `[nosave]' on it.
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schaefer@ogicse.ogi.edu (Barton E. Schaefer) (04/15/90)

In article <1990Apr13.182140.3265@vicom.com> lmb@vicom.com (Larry Blair) writes:
} In article <6572@ur-cc.UUCP> Mark Sirota <msir@cc.rochester.edu> writes:
} =How about ~R!, which would inhibit this message from being recorded in the
} ="record" folder?

How about:

	cmd R  'set record=+record'
	cmd R! 'unset record; echo "Not recording message"'
	map! ~R ~:R

and also possibly:

	cmd mail 'R;\mail'

(Yeah, R is normally "replyall"; choose some other letter ...)

You can do lots of stuff with this sort of thing:

	cmd V 'set verbose'
	cmd V! 'unset verbose'
	map! ~V ~:V

You get the idea ....

} That's a good idea, but an even better idea (IMHO) was a way to partially
} inhibit the save.  Elm provides this via an inline control line (it also
} provides encryption this way).
} 
} Last time I suggested this, Bart and Dan both expressed their displeasure
} with the Elm scheme.

And I'm expressing it again.  What we *do* intend to provide is a way
to specify patterns to a command similar to the current "pipe" command,
to allow selective filtering ala (/start/,/end/) in awk or sed.  Once
that's working, we'll probably add a way to pass outgoing mail through
such a thing, to get encryption and so on.
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