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

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