Re: Search utilities for use with mutt - I use mairix but it's not perfect

[John Niendorf]

On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 12:21:58AM +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote:

Mutt's own body search does the job for me within a mail folder, and
egrep provides full Extended Regular Expressions when searching some set

of my 1106 mail folders.

What is egrep and how does it work? (OK I guess I could look up the man page.)
Biggest question is: Is egrep a vim only thing or can a nano wimp use it too? 
;-)
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John