> A few days ago, someone in #plan9 asked how to search for all
> messages with a certain string in Acme Mail. The provided answer
> was "grep(1)", which has the advantage of being concise and
> maybe nominally correct, but the disadvantage of being totally
> useless as a practical answer.

just to add to that.  if Mail is not a requirement, ned has some
interesting possibilities

for messages with Mg in the "h" line, execute the h command
        g/Mg/h
same thing for matches in the whole message
        g%Mg%h

nupas ned allows you to search any file that upas/fs provides
for a message.  for example, if you want to print out all messages
that reference a given message
        25: p references
        [EMAIL PROTECTED]
        25: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
         25       1208   9/04 10:23 [EMAIL PROTECTED]          Re: sata
         57       1706   9/04 10:01 [EMAIL PROTECTED]          Re: sata

countdown to requests for threading in 3..2..1..

- erik


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