I may be wrong but I think a single select entry field is used
for selecting messages and switching folders. Restricting the entries
to be numeric would break the folder switching functionality, wouldn't
My version of MsgChange, not yet updated, has a check
# Allow null msgid from Msg_ShowWhat, which supplies line instead
at the start of the procedure which takes care of the single '-' case.
Perhaps the thing to do is for MsgChange to validate a msgid as a
In message <200208280108.VAA30178@blackcomb.panasas.com>, Brent Welch writes:
> at the Tcl prompt in the Log window.  I suspect that the sequence
> parser, which understands things like 5-22 to mean messages 5 through 22
> is confused when asked to add/remove message "-" from a sequence.
> If we are allowed to assume 8.2 or higher, which we can't really, then
> if {![string is integer $select(sel)]} {
>  >     From:        Chris Garrigues <cwg-dated-1030804078.e8b0d5@DeepEddy.Co
>  >   | Tell me what keystroke made it happen so I can reproduce it and I'll
>  >   | see what I can do about it (or if I can't, I'll hand it off to
>  > Don't worry too much about it, you seem to have plenty of other things
>  > to do in the immediate future, and this one isn't so critical that people
>  > But, to make it happen, type (with normal key bindings) any digit, so the
>  > code thinks you're trying a message number, then backspace, so the digit
>  > goes away, then '-' (other junk characters don't seem to have the
>  > problem, I have just been playing).   That will do it (every time).
>  > Once you get into that state, the same traceback occurs for every
>  > character you type, until a message is selected with the mouse.
>  > This is looking like it might be easy to find and fix, so I'll take a
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