On 25.08.15 13:18, Francesco Ariis wrote:
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> The browser menu is the one where all mailboxes/folders are listed.
> >From there:
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> - I type ":exec exit" and mutt returns to the last mailbox opened
Mmmm, this differs on my machine:
from browser menu I can see mailboxes in ~/Mail directory.
If I type ":exec exit", mutt ask me for which mailbox I want to open,
doesn't switch to the last opened automatically.
I have to type <enter> to open last seen mailbox.
Then, from within that mailbox (index menu), if I type ":exec quit",
mutt terminates as expected.
So in my case a macro like this could work properly:
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macro browser q "<exit><enter><quit>"
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Let's test it...
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Yessss it works! :)
Question solved! Thanks a lot for your help.
> macro index q "<change-folder>?<toggle-mailboxes>" "open another folder"
> macro browser q "<exit><quit>"
Default index menu behaviour (when you are in a mailbox) is to quit
Mutt by typing "q".
If I well understand your other macro, the one related to "index menu"
would be to exit from current mailbox and go to mailbox list (browser
menu).
I don't know the meaning of "question mark" in that sequence, anyway
in my case that doesn't work.
I think it is a useful stuff:
Read messages of a mailbox and then return to "mailboxes listing"
of mail directory (~/Mail for me) by simply type "q".
I've just tried this:
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index q "<change-folder><TAB>" "open another folder"
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And it seems to work as expected for me.
PS.
I'm trying to obtain a sort of hierarchical "menu" browsing:
1- list o mailboxes in Mail directory at startup (going in browser menu):
push "c<TAB>"
2- enter in chosen mailbox (arrow keys and enter).
3- open a message
4- return to mailbox (index menu) by pressing "q"
5- return to mailboxes list (browse menu) by pressing "q"
6- quit Mutt by pressing "q"
Ok, with those macros seems to work as I expected.
There are still a couple of things I'd like to obtain, one should be
easy and the other could be not possible at all:
1- "N" flags in my browser menu do not appears even if my mailboxes
contain brand new messages.
2- I'd like to isolate a whole thread from the rest of messages/threads
opening it in a new clean screen containing just that thread.
Same behaviour of "tin" newsreader:
- topics of a newsgroup are listed one per line
- let's open a topic contains more than one message by typing
right arrow key
- tin shows on a new screen the opened topic with all threaded
articles.
In this screen other topics are hidden (we are in a "menu" that
Mutt doesn't seem to provide), could call it "thread menu".
- from there we can open single articles and then return to the
"topic menu".
I'll try to write a sort of analogy between tin and mutt
"menus/screens".
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Tin Newsreader Mutt MUA
news-groups menu browser-menu (mailboxes list of ~/Mail)
topics menu index-menu (message subjects list)
thread menu -- missed --
article menu pager-menu (wher we read message
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Threads menu would be very useful for me especially to read mailing
list threads in a more clean way, this could be the subject of a new
thread on this mailing list...
