[mew-int 3088] Re: a feature request for mew.

[Alan Bram <alan.bram <at> cornell.edu> (2012-05-15 18:33:00 UTC)]

> 
> On May 15, 2012, at 9:42 AM, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
> 
> > Try marking the messages you are interested in, then hit m t
> > (mew-summary-mark-thread). Mew will create a new buffer with the
> > messages in threaded order.
> 
> That's an interesting feature.  However, I was dismayed to discover
> that it seems to have the effect of then erasing all the marks.  I
> had a large number of marked messages in my %inbox, and now all the marks
> are gone!  

Sorry to hear that. It's a bit late now, but what you could have done
is to mark all (m a) in the virtual buffer before leaving it with C-c
q. The idea behind this feature is that you can further refine the
selection of messages by one of the selective message marking
functions.

I have asked on this list for a mark that behaves like *, but which
does not have the side effects of altering the state of messages on
the server. That would require a bit of rethinking of how marks work,
I think, so it's more than an afternoon's hack.

- Harald