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Thunderbird mark message as read after reply

Thursday, October 14th, 2010

Well it appears I am not the only person having a problem with thunderbirds marking emails as read.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=239782

http://markmail.org/message/u6js6hblklqy3ei4

This is how I use thunderbird

I have disabled the “Automatically mark message as read” functionality so that I have to set messages as read.  If I don’t do this many emails were being marked as read when I hadn’t really finished reading them or replied to them.

In my case I classify an email as read when I have replied to it or clicked the read button (they require no reply)

I just want Thunderbird to set the read flag when I reply to the email.

Also I normally view the email in the “Message pane (F8)”

After installing

https://nic-nac-project.org/~kaosmos/changequote-en.html

I get exactly what I want.   Thunderbird now sets emails as read, when I reply to the email.

emacs p4 edit integration

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

I have been using perforce for some time and I wrote this little function to perform a p4 edit when I press the F9 key.

(defun p4-edit ()
  "does a p4 edit on the current file"
  (interactive)
  (let* (
         (filename (buffer-file-name))
         (cmd)
         (result)
         )
    (setf cmd (concat "p4 " "edit " filename))
    (setf result (shell-command-to-string cmd))
    (message (substring result 0 (- (length result) 1)))
    ;; reload the file
    (revert-buffer t t t)
    )
  ) 

(global-set-key [f9] 'p4-edit)

I know there are lots of other perforce integrations to emacs, but I wrote this and tried to keep it small and simple.

More gimp flame backgrounds

Sunday, August 10th, 2008

I made some more gimp flame backgrounds. Both images are 1600×1280.

These look good on 21″ CRT monitors. Of course you can crop them for wide screen monitors too.

a yellow circle flame spiral.

and

a yellow flame with square middle.

Don’t forget the full gallery is here

Cannot install firefox plugins

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

Well I thought I was going crazy.

Today I installed foxmarks on my Windows OS, hours later I tried to install it under linux and it kept failing.

I was really losing my patients. I could not figure out why it wasnt working. I disabled all other plugins, closed all other tabs, everything I could think of.

revolutionary road onlineFinally after searching for too long I found this post on the ubuntuforums.

It shows lots of other people were having the same problem.

The solution is to add

64.50.236.214   releases.mozilla.org

to you /etc/hosts file.

It appears that mozilla are having some issues with either the DNS entry or the servers behind releases.mozilla.org

I just know that this change will cause problems in the future though.

More Gimp Flame Render Backgrounds

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Welll I finally got some time to make some more backgrounds.

I created two which I really like

and

Both are 1600×1280. Dont forget to look at the others here and the complete gallery here

I also added them to deviantart, here and here respectfully.