* Daan van Rossum <d.r.vanros...@gmx.de> [06-26-19 04:27]:
> * on Wednesday, 2019-06-26 09:13 +0200, Moritz Barsnick <barsn...@gmx.net> 
> wrote:
> 
> > > > hard to see the difference between 1.3k and 1.3M at a quick glimpse
> > > > across the index.
> > >
> > > Yes, perhaps the reason I do not use %c. And the fact that the
> > > scaling facteur is on the right instead of the left makes this
> > > even harder (that's a bit like the American dates MMDDYYYY).
> > 
> > That's mutt_pretty_size(). If we wanted to overengineer this, this
> > function could be expanded or cloned to be fixed to a certain
> > granularity (such as k or M). (I'm not making this a feature request.
> > OTOH, why not craft my own patch? ;-))
> 
> I also don't use %c for the same reason.  Fixing the units to 'k' would make 
> me switch to %c instead of %l as well...

you want units for lines to be multiples or fractions of 1024 rather than
actual lines?  are the majority of the posts you read >1000 lines?

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