On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 06:50:18PM -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > I'm trying to open my system mail folder read-only in mutt, but the > following don't do the trick: > > mutt -R > mutt -R $MAIL > mutt -Rf $MAIL > > I'm thinking at least one of these *ought* to work. What am I doing > wrong?
looks like a bug... or something. according to the documentation, that should work. here's an alternative though... I use this all the time. when you're in the index view (looking at your subject lines and from contents) type '%' (shift-5). That will make your current email folder read-only. this should be an adequate replacement because mutt doesn't commit any changes to a folder until you close it (quit mutt or change which folder is "current"). maybe this is what the -R flag is doing but for some reason it's doing it in stealth mode. ;) watch the 'status' line at the bottom of the screen when you type '%'. it will say something like "changes to current folder will not be written" for a only moment, but it will add the '%' character to the bar so you'll know what mode you're in. (read-only mode) type the same character again to exit read-only mode. - Ben _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
