Re: [nmh-workers] Flagging messages

[David Levine]

Ralph wrote:

> You have seen scan(1) highlight the current message with a `+' after its
> number.  That's done using the, somewhat unique, formatting language
> that tests each message to see if it's the current one and output either
> a space or a plus depending.  You could reserve a column for `flagged'
> in a similar manner.

Or highlight with colors or other attributes that can be set using
terminal escape sequences, see scan.highlighted in the nmh etc
directory.

David