[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Well what I really want is to be able to delete only the message that
> is currently selected, based on the criteria.
Since the message is selected, you can look at the flags and easily see
if you should press the "d" key or not. No? I'm sorry if I don't fully
understand your problem.
> I've read up a bit on the macro stuff, and I noticed that there didn't
> seem to be a single-message equivalent of delete-pattern.
Because it was never deemed necessary, I suppose.
> The thing is that I never want to delete *all* messages that aren't
> marked O or N (although that's better than not being able to do it at
> all), because I like to save at least a month worth of mail.
Mutt's pattern matching is very powerful. Instead of matching the
read/unread flags, you can instead match by date. You could just as
easily create a macro that marks all the messages that are older than
one month, for deletion. You could have it select messages older than a
month, that have also been read. You really should examine the pattern
matching and see what is possible; you should not need the single-
message selection mechanism that you seem to think you need.
> > There should have been a doc/manual.txt file which was included with
> > your Mutt source code.
>
> That one was more or less unreadable (^Hs everywhere).
That file is intended to be viewed using a pager, such as "less", which
has the ability to parse the ^H's and show them as underlines or bolded
text. Did you really think that the developers would give you an
unreadable manual? :)
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