[710] in BarnOwl Developers
Re: Bug in -c message view narrowing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey Hutzelman)
Thu Oct 29 18:08:55 2009
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From: "Jeffrey Hutzelman" <jhutz@cmu.edu>
Date: 18 Sep 2007 17:08:00 -0400
To: <kchen@MIT.EDU>
CC: <jtu@MIT.EDU>, <dirty-owl-hackers@MIT.EDU>
This is a matter of policy and local convention and thus belongs in configuration, not hardwired into owl. Really, that's true of the whole smartnarrow operation; it should be easy to provide an alternate function to compute the filter to use.
--Jeff
-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Chen <kchen@MIT.EDU>
Date: Tuesday, Sep 18, 2007 5:02 pm
Subject: Re: Bug in -c message view narrowing
To: Jennifer Tu <jtu@MIT.EDU>
CC: dirty-owl-hackers@MIT.EDU
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Jennifer Tu wrote:
>
>> Narrowing a view on a "-c unmessage" zephyr narrows the view to class
> message (instead of unmessage).
>
>While this behavior sometimes annoys me, it's intentional. barnowl knows about un- and -.d classes, and strips all "un" and ".d" strings to get a base class, and then creates a filter that includes any number of un and .d prefixes and suffixes.
>
>It might be nice to have an option that controls whether this behavior happens.
>
>I forgot if it's been fixed or whether it's in the locker, but ":vc message" is or will be a workaround.
>
>--
>Kevin Chen
>http://www.sneswhiz.com/
>
>
