On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 04:53:39AM -0400, Chris Jones wrote: > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 07:01:48PM EDT, Chris Jones wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:14:55AM EDT, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 06:47:55PM -0400, Chris Jones > > > <[email protected]> was heard to say: > > > > [..] > > > > > > The only thing I find "frustrating" about mutt is that it is impossible > > > > to view more than one message at a time - you actually have to fire up a > > > > second instance of mutt to achieve this. > > > > > > > > What else? > > > > > > (1) mutt's support for cross-folder operations is fairly limited. > > > You can view multiple folders by running multiple mutts, but you > > > can't do operations that require accessing two at once, such as > > > cross-folder searches ("where did I put that email from John last > > > Tuesday?"). > > > > I tend to be over-organized - IOW, I spend/waste way too much time > > organizing.. :-) so, this kind of thing practically never happens to me. > > [..] > > > CJ > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > [email protected] > > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 08:42:07PM EDT, Rob Owens wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 07:01:48PM -0400, Chris Jones wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:14:55AM EDT, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 06:47:55PM -0400, Chris Jones > > > > <[email protected]> was heard to say: > > > > > > > (2) Since mutt runs its editor as an external program, there's no way > > > > to quote more messages than you started with. If you get halfway > > > > through a long email and then realize you wanted to quote some > > > > other messages, you have to blow up the mail and restart > > > > (hopefully saving it somewhere) -- or of course copy the message > > > > in and quote it by hand. > > > > > > True, you have to "tag" the messages first.. and then launch the editor > > > on the messages' concatenation. > > > > > Could you give more details on how to do this? > > > > -Rob > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > [email protected] > > I did the above by: > > 't' → tag my post + your reply - tagged messages are flagged with '*' > ';' → tag prefix - apply next function to tagged messages > 'L' → reply to list - editor is launched on concatenation of messages > > Alt+'t' lets your tag an entire thread or sub-thread below the current > cursor position. > > Obviously, tagged messages can be processed by any valid mutt function > such as 's' (save) which lets you _move_ (rather than save) messages or > entire threads to other folders. > > 't' and Alt-'t' really toggle the '*' flag so you need to hit 't' again > to "untag" messages. > > Shift+'t' or Ctrl+'t' let you tag messages that match a given pattern > such as the sender, which is handy if you want to quickly move all my > posts to /dev/null :-) > Thanks! I was familiar with tagging, but it never occured to me to use it for replies.
-Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
