On 02/16/12 at 05:55pm, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 17:02:19 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> > * Christian Dysthe <[email protected]> [02-16-12 16:08]:
> > >
> > >
> > > On 02/16/12 at 05:21pm, Maurice McCarthy wrote:
> > > > Hitting Tab already does this for me.
> > >
> > > Not for me. Tab just jumps from one unread message to the next. I have
> > > to hit space to scroll down the message, but it then goes to the next
> > > message, not the next unread.
> >
> > You undoubtedly have something changing that action in your /etc/muttrc or
> > ~/.muttrc. To eliminate the actions from the config files, try using mutt
> > from the cl:
> > mutt -F /dev/null
> >
> > and see if the actions return to those expected, ie:
> > TAB = next new/unread
> > SPACE = next page
> >
>
> I don't believe Maurice's behavior is different than the default...
>
> He's talking about what happens when he runs the "next-page" function
> (bound to the SPACE key) while viewing the last screen of the current
> message, which currently advances to the next message (as controlled by
> the setting of the pager-stop variable -- presumably that's set to the
> default value of "no").
>
> What Maurice is asking is if there's any way to get this "move to next
> message" operation of the next-page function to instead be "move to
> next _new_ message"....
>
You are absolutely correct and able to describe it much better than I
was.
> (In other words, he's not saying that TAB doesn't have the default
> behavior of going to the the next new message, but rather that it
> doesn't have the effect of paging down though his current message the
> way the SPACE key does, which is what he's looking for....)
Correct.
>
>
> Maurice, I don't know of a direct way to do what you want, but one thing
> you could try is to do a "limit" to new messages only (~N) when you
> start reading your mail. That way, the "next message in index" that
> next-page advances to would in fact jump to the next new message....
Okay, I will try the "limit" approach. The behavior I'm looking for is
very efficient going through mail boxes with a lot of (new) mail. I'm
also using the Tin news reader which works like I would like Mutt to.
Even GUI apps like Thunderbird and Opera (mail client) has that behavior
for the space bar. Thanks!
>
> (But you would have to refresh the limit periodically as you read your
> messages to remove the ones you've just read from the current index, and
> of course remove the limit when you wanted to go back an look at
> previously-read messages.)
Understood.
>
> Nathan
>
>
>
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//Christian Dysthe
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