Re: About quoting text, about emacs.

2001-07-25 Thread John Arundel
On 2001-07-25 at 22:53:24, Greg Matheson warbled: > There is a perl module called Mail::Folder that has subroutines > for reading from mbox and maildir folders. You have to specify > the number of the message in the folder. Painful. > Another approach would be to write a vim function. You would

Re: About quoting text, about emacs.

2001-07-25 Thread John Arundel
On 2001-07-25 at 15:05:58, Jens Paulus warbled: > 1.) Editing an email with vim/mutt, I sometimes wish to insert/quote > text from another email that I'm not currently replying to. If there is a smart way to do this in mutt, I don't know it. I normally just: * Exit the editor * Postpone the mail

Re: How change trash file

2001-07-19 Thread John Arundel
On 2001-07-19 at 08:40:47, Gary Johnson warbled: > Mutt has no trash folder. Au contraire... see mutt-dev archives for the trash patch. John -- "I was an only child... eventually." - Steven Wright

Re: Simple mutt question ... I think? [now miles OT]

2001-07-17 Thread John Arundel
On 2001-07-17 at 11:06:14, Chris Fuchs warbled: > As a professional courtesy to some of the people I work and > deal with. Ah - yes, I realise that you will receive top-posted mail, and that you don't have time to educate everyone you deal with, but why are you yourself forced to originate this r

Re: Simple mutt question ... I think?

2001-07-17 Thread John Arundel
On 2001-07-17 at 09:28:55, Chris Fuchs warbled: > Yes, I quite agree - unfortunately I have to deal and comply > with this format Why? -- "I had to stop driving my car for a while. The tires got dizzy." - Steven Wright __

Re: date format

2001-07-16 Thread John Arundel
On 2001-07-16 at 09:56:48Z, Byrial Jensen wrote: > 1) The time format is ambiguous because it doesn't include timezone >information. As it is, it will use the origininal sender's timezone >(the question was sent at 10:16 your local time). It would have >been mine local time if I had us

Re: Random Sigs?

2001-07-11 Thread John Arundel
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 11:15:13AM -0700, Carl B . Constantine wrote: > Is there anyway in mutt to randomize the signature? This is what I use: #!/bin/sh SIGFILES=`ls ~/.sigs/sig.* |wc -l` RANDOM=$$ cat ~/.sigs/sig.`expr $RANDOM % $SIGFILES` I put this in a script called randsig.sh, and set si

Re: quote deleting in vim (OT)

2001-07-11 Thread John Arundel
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 12:17:05PM -0400, Dan Boger wrote: > any easy way of doing "Delete until ^--"? Well, d} will delete everything until the next blank line, which should work, since mutt puts in a blank line before the signature separator. Alternatively you could just, as you suggest, do d/

Re: Limiting Folder view

2001-07-11 Thread John Arundel
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 11:11:19AM -0400, Benjamin Reed wrote: > Ok, now I feel like an ass. =) You shouldn't, an ass would not have asked the question in the first place, he would have just struggled on grumbling to himself about &^%$&*ing lame mail clients... > Just a suggestion, you may want

Re: Limiting Folder view

2001-07-11 Thread John Arundel
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 10:50:25AM -0400, Benjamin Reed wrote: > I didn't see anything in the manual about the views and > how to order them. Mutt manual, section 3.11: "Defining mailboxes which receive mail." "Pressing TAB in the directory browser will bring up a menu showing the files specifie

Re: netiquette [ drifting OT ]

2001-07-11 Thread John Arundel
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 10:30:49AM -0400, Ken Weingold wrote: > You have a thread going > on for a while, and want to quote it, but it is MANY lines. That is > where I wonder what to do, since you could have more than a page-worth > of just quoting, and it is all relevent. Unlikely. The only rea

Re: A folder fol deleted messages

2001-07-06 Thread John Arundel
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 10:39:56AM -0400, Justin R. Miller wrote: > Here are a couple of macros that I use for a "trash can": The list archive is filled with 101 variations on this theme. I haven't found a patch anywhere which implements a pukka trash folder. All the macro solutions have various

Re: Introduction

2001-06-28 Thread John Arundel
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 05:43:32PM -, Dallam Wych wrote: > I downloaded the manual, but I wonder if anyone knows > any sites that have instructions for setting mutt up and using it that are > perhaps a little more basic and easy to understand? You could try http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~mat

Re: regexps in fcc-hook, save-hook

2001-06-27 Thread John Arundel
On 2001-06-26 at 16:59:35, Zane Crawford warbled: > What I'm trying to do, is make it such that by default, if no other rule > defines how something will be saved, that it offers USER (from > [EMAIL PROTECTED]) as the folder name. Thanks! But this is the default behaviour anyway, isn't it? Back

Re: How to forward mail with attachments?

2001-06-26 Thread John Arundel
On 2001-06-26 at 13:22:05, Chris S. warbled: > Hi! > > Seems simple enough, but forward just forwards and dosen't attach the > attachments that came with the origional message. See the section "2.5 Forwarding and Bouncing Mail" in the manual. Bouncing the message will do what you want, but if yo

Re: $index_format

2001-06-26 Thread John Arundel
On 2001-06-26 at 11:35:25, Josh Meekhof warbled: > Has anyone run into any problems with setting the $folder_index > variable? Whenever I attempt to set this variable I get an error that > tell's me that '%Z' is not an available variable. Well, there is no $folder_index variable (is there?) Did