Hello, I like to start reading my mail with old threads collapsed. Unfortunately I am finding no reliable way to achieve that.
For a long time, I just had something like this: folder-hook .* "exec collapse-all current-middle" and it worked fine - but that was when I started mutt always in the same way, namely in a fresh terminal emulator window. I have just switched to a different Linux distribution and a different desktop, and now I sometimes need to do it that way, but also sometimes in a "tab" of an existing emulator window. Curiously, mutt behaves differently in these two cases. It starts collapsed in a tab, but expanded in a new window. I could work around it if I had either a command to reach a known collapsing state, or a way of knowing the present state, but alas, I seem to have neither: <collapse-all> is a toggle command, and I can find no variable or anything to tell me if mutt is presently collapsed or expanded. Do you know of a way out of this frustrating situation? -- Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and Usenet, if you also post the followup to the list or newsgroup. To reply privately _only_ on Usenet and on broken lists which rewrite From, fetch the TXT record for no-use.mooo.com.