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Progress Meter

There's one other feature of sortby that I think is nice

        my $N = my @old_order = sort {$a <=> $b} MH::message_list($FOLDER);
        my $s = "s" unless $N == 1;
        $VSCALE *= 3 until $N / $VSCALE < 80;
        print STDERR "Scanned folder ($N message$s)\n" if $VERBOSE;
        print STDERR '|', '-' x ceil($N/$VSCALE - 2), "|\n" if $VERBOSE;
        for my $mn (@old_order) {
          my $msg = MH::header($mn, $FOLDER);
          $field{$mn} = $msg->get($FIELD);
          print STDERR "." if $VERBOSE && $Vcounter++ % $VSCALE == 0;
        }
        print STDERR "\nRead messages\n" if $VERBOSE;

It's a progress meter

I don't like progress meters that fall off the right margin

This one adjusts the scale so that that never happens

If the meter exceeds 79 columns, it gets shrunk by a factor of 3