Subject: feature request: Select Cur, CurThread, CurSubject, etc

From: Nancy McGough <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 15:42:57 +0000 (GMT)

When I'm reading a newsgroup or mailing list I like to first
select all the messages I want to read and then read them. The
way I do this now is to page through the index and mark the
messages I want to read by typing `:' which means SelectCur, and
then zoom in on the selected messages by typing `Z'. I almost
always want to select an entire thread or subject rather than
just some of the messages in the thread. It would be great if I
could use a single keystroke to select a subject or a thread.

Thanks for considering this!
^X,
Nancy

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From: Walt Smith <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 08:38:29 -0500 (EST)

Well, it's not _quite_ what you want, but use of the aggregate command can
get you awfully close and it even avoids problems created by a few email
clients when composing replies to messages in a thread.

Let's assume that the unique string in the thread that I want to read is
"Pine 4.33 and mail forwarding"; with aggregate commands turned on in my
configuration, here's the key sequence:

;
t
s
pine 4.33 and mail forwarding
<enter>

Since I have autozoom turned on, the only messages I see at this point are
those with the given text in the subject line.  Position the cursor at the
first message (Control-W followed by Control-Y) and begin reading.

The item I mentioned about problems created by some email clients is that
this method will capture _all_ messages with this subject.  Some email
clients that I've seen place some word such as "Memo" at the beginning of
the subject line when replaying and having a one-key to select based on
the contents of a given field would not capture both the messages without
such a prefix and those with it.  I am not referring here to the standard
"Re:" that is already accounted for by many sort routines.

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