Re: Any (brave :-) mew users?

SL Baur <steve(a)vmailer.xemacs.org&gt; wrote: I've got a ton of local changes/modifications to mh-e. I've got no plans to submit them to the mh-e maintainer (as I don't have the time to get the legal paperwork done), but I could submit them to xemacs-patches. Would anyone be interested in the following? * Significant performance improvements by intelligent caching of folder contents (scans). * Automatic generation of folder names when refiling messages, based upon email addresses. For example, messages from &quot;jdoe(a)foo.bar.com&quot; get a default folder name of "jdoe". Optional elisp functions can be written to return default folder names, if the existing features are insufficient. [ Other people have written similar features for mh-e, but I believe my version has been around the longest, although poorly publicized. ] * Automatic alias completion, based upon MH aliases, sendmail aliases, and /etc/passwd. When entering email addresses at the "To:" prompt, the TAB key can be used to do email address completion. [ Other people have written similar features for mh-e, but I believe my version has been around the longest, although poorly publicized. ] * Automatic email address harvesting, for automatic email alias generation. Whenever a message is viewed, the sender's name/address can be automatically added to an internal database. The name/address is then available for alias completion. Harvesting can be done upon all folders, selected folders, or all folders but specified ones. Inspired by exmh (but, for some inexplicable reason, exmh doesn't make the address easily accessible for use in specifying "To:" & "cc:" addresses). * Update mode line to turn off the "new mail" icon after doing an "inc". * Optional ability to visit new MH folders in new frames. Visiting an existing, but iconified, MH folder causes the frame to be un-iconified. * Optional ability to quit mh-e by iconifying the mh-e frame, instead of killing the mh-e buffers. * Enhanced signature file processing. An optional elisp function can be specified to return a signature. This is useful for writing a function that scans the draft to determine an appropriate signature. I'm still hacking on my local mh-e. The next big feature that I'm going to add is an exmh-like interface to glimpse (this is a killer feature in exmh). However, the one possible downside to my changes is that the mh-e maintainer asked me to NOT begin any of my new mh-e functions with the "mh-" prefix. For example, mh-e functions start with "mh-" (e.g., "mh-get-new-mail"). The maintainer asked me to not use the "mh-" prefix, and so all of my changes have a "y-mh-" prefix, which makes the code look odd, as functions begin with either "mh-" or "y-mh". -- Darryl Okahata Internet: darrylo(a)sr.hp.com DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Hewlett-Packard, or of the little green men that have been following him all day.