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
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