[neomutt-devel] Tagging Emails

[Jakub Jindra]

I would expect "User's sort order"

JJ

On 2021-02-27 14:42, Richard Russon wrote:
>Background: I'm trying to improve how NeoMutt internally handles tagged sets of emails.
>
>If I tag ten emails, then perform an operation on them,
>in which order would you expect them to be worked on?
>
>For example, if you piped them to an external program
>
>- User's sort order
>  Top to bottom in the order they'd appear in the index
>  (including any threading)
>
>- Selection order
>  The first email tagged would be processed first, and so on.
>  Typically, the user would tag top-to-bottom in the index,
>  so this could be the same as the sort order.
>
>- Unseen order -- dependent on other factors, e.g. the mailbox type
>  - Maildir:   Alphabetical
>  - Imap:      By UID (Unique ID)
>  - Generally: By memory address (for speed)
>
>What do you think?
>
>Cheers,
>    Rich / FlatCap
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