Hi, The purpose of this email: it would be *REALLY* nice if the manual was explicit about what is meant by "all" in "4.2 Patterns" section. Also, the manual should probably have a small blurb listing which commands ignore collapsed thread messages, and which don't (ideally in section "2.3.3 Threaded Mode"). For some of us mutt's current behaviour in this regard is non-intuitive, so clearing these things up in the manual would help us from pulling our hair out.
Long story: I got bitten badly by the ambiguity in the manual regarding the "~A" pattern. Naive me thought that "all messages" means "all messages", and would have never guessed it meant "all *visible* messages". My default folder view is with collapsed threads and I was opening mh folders and moving all messages to new mbox style ones: T~A\n;s=newmbox\n After checking that the first few mailboxes were transferred correctly (which as fate would have it didn't have more than one message per thread) I did the rest quickly. As deleted messages in mh folders still leave files, I "rm -rf" those directories once they were converted. Only three-quarters of the way through did I realize that the collapsed messages were not being copied over. Argh!!! Luckily I can probably get 95% of the lost messages from various backups, but it's a massive headache. After browsing the Net on this topic I later found that apparently other commands also ignore collapsed messages (I think searching was one of them). Can someone list which commands ignore threads and which don't? BTW, I'm using mutt 1.3.24. -- Maciej Kalisiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.dgp.toronto.edu/~mac
