On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 01:38:07PM -0800, Tim Johnson wrote: > > > > You can tag the thread, and save it all 'en masse' to an 'mbox' file > > > > anywhere where you can create a file. How would the file you are want > > > > to create differ from what you get when it is created as an 'mbox'? > > > Yeah, what would work for me is a special mbox directory for just > > > saving stuff then open them in vim and weed out headers, saving > > > content to a new file.. > > > > Save a thread to any file name you like, open that file in vim and > > tell me how that differs from what you requested. > Gary, below is my original question: > > > > > > > I can <Esc>t to tag the thread and then ;s to save to another > > > > > > > mailbox, but I don't know if I can save the same to a file. > To recap, if I tag the thread and invoke ;s > I get the following response > "Save tagged to mailbox ('?' for list): =tim" > If I back up the cursor and enter "~/save-thread.txt", > mutt creates a mailbox named save-thread.txt > That is not what I want. > ----------------------- > Please tell me how you would save the entire thread to one file. > Clearly I am not using the correct command. > thanks
Are you really this dumb, or are you just playing around? Terry