Re: searching backwards

Matt Ackeret <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.pine.general
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.
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