Re: check if message is in a particular sequence?

[Paul Fox]

ken wrote:
 > >What's the fastest/easiest way to check if a particular message
 > >is a member of a particular sequence?
 > >
 > >I thought I'd be able to compare the message number against the output
 > >of "mark -list", but since sequences can be abbreviated with range
 > >notation, that gets complicated quickly.  For example, message 6 is in
 > >the sequence todo, but it's hard to tell from this:
 > 
 > You can get the expanded list of messages in a sequence by doing this:
 > 
 >      scan -format '%(msg)' sequence-name
 > 
 > I think from there, it's easy.  I do not know of a better way, but it
 > wouldn't surprise me if someone came up with something better.

Thanks.  Seems...  overkill...  to have to fire up a parsing language,
but it will definitely work.

Bob's solution, falls in the same (mostly good :-) category.

It also seems like mark(1) could do it.  Currently it ignores its message
args if -list is given.  It could be enhanced so that if message
args are given, then -list would only output sequence membership for
the given args.

...time passes...

I have a partial patch for mark which does what I described.  Don't
know whether it's worth it or not.

paul
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