[6995] in SIPB bug reports
Re: exmh and messages > 9999
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Morzinski)
Wed Sep 9 22:14:39 1998
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 22:14:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jacob Morzinski <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199809091640.MAA03664@contents-vnder-pressvre.mit.edu>
On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, John Hawkinson wrote:
> exmh appears to lose in interesting and annoying ways when
> message numbers exceed 9999.
> IMHO it should so something intelligent, such as notify the
> user as to why it is losing, and what to do about it.
Most of the MH front ends lose this way. (Certainly mh-rmail,
perhaps xmh). It's mostly MH's (scan's) fault, for failing to
deal with message numbers greater than 4 digits.
Perhaps send mail to bugs (or suggest?) suggesting that the
default scan format be changed to use %6(msg), instead of
%4(msg). Unfortunately, I think this has to be compiled into
"scan", instead of merely a change in /usr/athena/etc/scan.default.
Maybe this might merit an olc answer as well.
I don't think it's particular enough to exmh to warrant trying to
hack exmh to cope with it.
-Jacob
