On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 06:54:13PM -0600, Will Fiveash wrote: > On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 04:50:12PM -0800, Brendan Cully wrote: > > On Thursday, 10 January 2013 at 18:45, Will Fiveash wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 04:20:12PM -0800, Brendan Cully wrote: > > > > On Thursday, 10 January 2013 at 17:47, Will Fiveash wrote: > > > > > Occasionally I'm involved in a very long e-mail thread such that the > > > > > threading indicators are beyond the width of my terminal window. What > > > > > I'd like is a way to temporarily "pull in" a subthread so I can see > > > > > the > > > > > threading. To put it another way, make some message that's the parent > > > > > of a subthread look like the parent of the entire thread causing mutt > > > > > to > > > > > hide the rest of the entire thread (if that makes sense). Can mutt do > > > > > this? If not, I'd like to see this feature added. > > > > > > > > You could break the thread. I don't think we have a temp-break-thread > > > > command that doesn't write the changes back to the mailbox, but it > > > > might not be too hard to make. > > > > > > I'd tried breaking the thread but with the threading options I'm using > > > mutt automatically added the subtree to the existing main thread in a > > > place that still hid the subtree thread display. 8^/ > > > > I guess you mean strict_threads=no. It seems like a bug to me that > > breaking threads doesn't break them in nonstrict mode too. > > Yes, I have strict_threads=no set in my .muttrc. Perhaps I will revisit > that setting which I set years ago and have forgotten why (probably > because some mail lists I follow have posts from broken MUAs). Perhaps > it can set that to yes at this point?
BTW, I just tried setting strict_threads=yes and breaking the subthread and that was close to what I was looking for. If there could be a temp-break-thread command that could be undone when '$'yncing that would be nice. As it stands if I reply to or delete some of the messages in that broken subthread those changes will be lost because I have to quit mutt via 'x' which does not update the original mailbox. -- Will Fiveash
