Re: searching backwards
Matt Ackeret <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.mail.pine.general |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Fri, 18 May 2007, Rob Runkel wrote: > "Thank you" to everyone who responded to my query. Seems that the > ability to search backwards hasn't been implemented. I think it would > be a useful addition. In my case, I'm often looking for the "last word" > on a particular subject, and searching backward would get me there the > fastest. (searching forward gets me to the first email on a given > subject -- if i continue to search forward I do eventually get to the > last match -- but since I don't know it is the last one, I search forward > again, wrapping back to the first match. So I have to continue the > process and remember to stop at the right time. quite frustrating if > you deal w/ a lot of email). You do realize you can just do one search and end up with a list of selected items, that you can then look through to find the right one? e.g. at the W prompt, instead of hitting return, you can hit ^X (control-X) or you can use the ; command You need to turn on the Enable-Aggregate-Command-Set pref. _______________________________________________ Pine-info mailing list [email protected] http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/pine-info