Re: [Nmh-workers] Relative Message Numbers

[Paul Fox]

david wrote:
 > Ralph wrote:
 > 
 > > Hi Paul,
 > > 
 > > > as a convenience feature when typing negative offsets, "foo:-n" and
 > > > "foo=-n" can be entered as "foo::n" and "foo==n" respectively.
 > > 
 > > I dislike this.  Must be my preference for Python's `one way to do it'
 > > over Perl's `there must still be one more way we haven't added yet'.
 > > :-)
 > 
 > Agreed.  In general, I think it's best to minimize the
 > feature set, and therefore testing and documentation.  And
 > it helps reduce confusion between what might some day be
 > similar features given some other enhancement.  And reduce
 > the likelihood of unintended interactions between features,
 > always a concern with nmh.

okay.  i've removed the "stuttered" syntax support, and pushed the
changes.

enjoy.

paul
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