I was indeed thinking about exactly Vincent's patch. Thanks for the great replies from you all!
Daan * on Friday, 2017-11-10 20:18 -0800, Kevin J. McCarthy <ke...@8t8.us> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 02:46:30AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2017-11-10 08:36:05 -0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 01:12:55PM +0100, Daan van Rossum wrote: > > > > 2. add to status_format a sequence like: > > > > %R number of read messages > > > > > > This one I'm not enthused about. The count used above is not stored in > > > the context, and I don't really want to add the logic everywhere to keep > > > that count correct. > > > > But the total number of messages and the number of unread messages > > are in the context. Thus you would only need to do a subtraction > > dynamically. What about the attached patch? > > That's true. Perhaps I misunderstood Daan's intention. The prompt in > mx_close_mailbox() doesn't include deleted message or flagged messages > if $keep_flagged is set. I wouldn't want to make that number available > in the status_format. > > However, a simple patch like you posted would be fine with me. > > -- > Kevin J. McCarthy > GPG Fingerprint: 8975 A9B3 3AA3 7910 385C 5308 ADEF 7684 8031 6BDA
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