Will Yardley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
mutt doesn't have an editor, so this is a function of your editor. in
vim you can use :set tw=74 or :set textwidth=74
In Emacs,
(add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill)
This assumes you're using text-mode or one of its derivatives to
compose
Vincent Lefevre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If you want to reformat quoted text, emacs is quite bad at this,
and I've never found *perfect* LISP code to do that. :(
Huh? Emacs is _excellent_ at this. What mode and you using to
edit messages and what problems are you having?
Sam [writing this
David T-G [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
...and then Samuel Padgett said...
% I recently moved some messages that I was reading with another MUA
% to an mbox file I read with Mutt. I noticed that in the index
How did you move them? What's the other MUA's format? [What's the other
MUA?]
I
working on this). Maybe I can grab a development version.
Even if I did this, wouldn't Mutt have the same problem Gnus had:
no From_ header?
% How does the From: header for this representative message look?
%
% Um, let's see...
%
% From: Samuel Padgett [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Oh, *duh* Sorry
David T-G [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
...and then Samuel Padgett said...
% Hm. Gnus reads Maildir, but doesn't write it (although I think
% they're working on this). Maybe I can grab a development version.
Can it write MMDF or save to an IMAP server, both of which mutt also
speaks
David T-G [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
...and then Samuel Padgett said...
% It seems Gnus reads MMDF, but doesn't write it. Gnus does IMAP,
Ahhh... It reads anything and writes only its own (well, OK, mbox);
urgh.
Actually, Gnus writes a bunch of stuff: mbox, IMAP, nnml, babyl,
MH spool
David T-G [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
...and then Samuel Padgett said...
% Mutt seems to use the values out of the Sender header and the Date
% header to construct the From_ line. So maybe the solution is the
Makes sense -- if it's there. I just checked another message to see
Vineet Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
* Samuel Padgett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
So the advantage of Maildir is speed, and the disadvantage
is that it eats inodes for breakfast?
This is my experience, yes. Another advantage is peace of mind
that you'll never again fall prey
Thomas Hurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
* Thorsten Haude ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Yeah, the basic brain-dead-mailer-problem and its reply-to-munging or
group-reply answer. Fortunately, there's Mutt. I use group-reply about
once a year.
I have 'r' rebound to list-reply for all my
Thomas Hurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
* Samuel Padgett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
But won't people who aren't subscribed to the lists not receive your
messages?
A rare special case, especially since the majority of the lists I'm
on don't even allow external posts.
I subscribe
Is there a way to exit Mutt directly from the browser? After c
tab tab, q just takes me back to the Open mailbox prompt.
The help doesn't reveal any other promising commands. I'm running
Mutt 1.3.24i and have quit set to yes.
Thanks,
Sam
--
It doesn't matter if you're the greatest guitar
Ken Weingold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Or you could just remap 'q' to Quit. Or use 'Q'.
Key is not bound. Press '?' for help.
Hm.
Sam
--
It doesn't matter if you're the greatest guitar player in the world.
If you're not enlightened, forget it. -- George Harrison
Kenneth Pronovici [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What about CTRL-C...? Seems to work everywhere...
If I delete a message in a mailbox, type c ?, then quit with
C-c, Mutt doesn't purge the deleted message :-(
Sam
--
It doesn't matter if you're the greatest guitar player in the world.
If you're not
Thomas Hurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I had a look at Gnus too, mainly because people seem to think it handles
things like [crap] in subjects an dupes really well;
From the Gnus manual:
Duplicate suppression is not a very subtle instrument. It's
more like a sledge hammer than
Will Yardley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
you can do the exact same thing with a simple procmail recipe.
Nifty.
it can be argued (and as the gnus manual points out) that this
might be unreliable.
Yeah. The manual goes on to give this tip:
Here's a neat feature: If you know that the
David T-G [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
To set my comments apart from others' I started using %_ (the
common notation for a trailing space, just like the From_
header). I had, IIRC, already seen a few folks using | and
within a few years all manner of quoting (most commonly : :_ |
|_ $ but
Does anyone know of a tool to import records from the Insidious
Big Brother Database into abook, or am I condemned to do it by hand
(my penance for using an Emacs-specific address book)?
Thanks!
Sam [who apologizes if this is off-topic for this forum]
Jelmer Vernooij [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Try using the lbdb, which has support for bbdb.
I'd like to get away from using BBDB in general, however, since
it's slow. And I've switched from Gnus to Mutt, so abook probably
makes more sense.
Thanks, though.
Sam
Thomas Hurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
* Samuel Padgett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Does anyone know of a tool to import records from the Insidious Big
Brother Database into abook, or am I condemned to do it by hand (my
penance for using an Emacs-specific address book)?
Write a bit
giorgian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
i defined the function my-text-mode in my .emacs file, to set all my
mail editing preferences;
Would be nice to see this function. Do you use `defined-derived-mode'?
i put in my .muttrc the row:
set editor=emacs -f my-text-mode
I think it is better to
Walt Mankowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have
(turn-on-font-lock)
(global-font-lock-mode t)
(setq font-lock-maximum-decoration t)
(just to be safe) elsewhere in my .emacs. :-)
If you're using GNU Emacs, you only need
(global-font-lock-mode 1)
The other lines are superfluous.
Franco Vite [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I use vim, and when I replay I've:
blablablabla = magenta
blablabla = red
blablabla = green
Hm. All three lines are the same color for me in Vim. Did you do
anything special to get this?
Whit emacs , and are
Franco Vite [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
hi mailQuoted1ctermfg=darkcyan
hi mailQuoted2ctermfg=darkgreen
hi mailQuoted3ctermfg=darkred
hi mailQuoted4ctermfg=darkmagenta
hi mailQuoted5ctermfg=darkblue
hi mailQuoted6ctermfg=darkcyan
hi mailQuoted7
Is there any way to get the Mutt-1.3.24i threading behavior back?
It looks like it changed again in Mutt-1.3.25i. Specifically, I
like seeing the ?'s, but only enough to give me context. Today,
with hide_missing set, I see something like this
?-?-?-?-?-?-?-Re: foo
`-?-Re: foo
The
Daniel Eisenbud [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I mean to get back to some threading loose ends in the next few
days, so I'll add a $hide_missing_parents option, or some such.
Terrific! Thanks, Daniel!
Sam
I sometimes ssh into my machine from work and use Mutt. The
connection through the firewall, however, is, uh, a bit tenuous
and often gets dropped. Sometimes this happens when I am
composing a message. Is there a good way to recover these
compositions and pick up where I left off?
I'm using
Ken Weingold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
vim -r will give you a list of recoverable temp files. Rarely fails
me.
Yes, but then how do I actually send the message. Cut-n-paste
into a new composition buffer?
I was hoping Mutt had some facility to notice /tmp/mutt-* files
that are unsent and
Gary Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
A better way to handle this is to run screen on your work machine. Then
when your connection drops, simply re-logon to your work machine, run
'screen -r' to re-attach the screen session, and pick up where you left
off.
This is a really good idea.
Ken Weingold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
AFAIK, it is up to the editor, not mutt. When in vim, go to
':help recover' and it will tell you what you need to know. IOW
you can do it right from within vim.
I guess my point is that there are a lot of manual steps here:
start new composition, use
Derek D. Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hmmm... well, whenever I reply to a message, everything after
sigdashes is stripped from the message. It's possible that my editor
is doing this (I use post-mode for emacs), and I'll look into that.
I'm pretty sure that post-mode does this. You
Nick Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I use vim as my editor and can't work out how to make portions of my
text bold? I know many of you use vim so I hope someone can help.
Some MUAs will display a^Ha (aa) as a bold a. Is this what
you mean?
Sam
Derek D. Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Well, that command didn't do much useful for me,
Did you try running it after loading post-mode?
To turn it OFF, one would stick this in the appropriate place in
their .emacs file:
'(post-kill-quoted-sig nil)
That line alone does not do
René Clerc [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If you set editor to , mutt will use the environment variable
EDITOR; make sure this is set (and exported) in your .profile or an
alike file.
Wouldn't Mutt actually ignore $EDITOR if $VISUAL is set?
Nick, it's probably a good idea to set VISUAL=vim,
Nick Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Sounds fine to me Sam, I don't know what VISUAL is though?
I presume it's a config var, I'll go look it up on the manual.
Sorry, I think I was unclear: VISUAL is an environment variable.
It isn't Mutt-specific. You might want to look at the
documentation
mike ledoux [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I don't buy into the idea that the editor should be the beginning and
the end of my interaction with the system. I expect a text editor to
be good at editing text--nothing more, nothing less. To insist that
the editor should know the difference between
David T-G [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Anywhere. Mine happens to be on line 462.
Wow. You have a 462+ line .muttrc?
Sam [who's impressed]
Why does sync-mailbox signal an error when the mailbox is empty?
Shouldn't it just be a no-op?
The error foils these macros:
macro index y sync-mailboxchange-folder?toggle-mailboxes
macro pager y sync-mailboxchange-folder?toggle-mailboxes
Thanks,
Sam
Nick Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Don't know what you mean but I've fixed it. It was a silly error
I'd made. It's just one of those days.
Can you tell us what was wrong and how you fixed it (just in case
we ever run into the same problem)?
Thanks,
Sam
I sometimes spell check my messages before I send them using
Ispell (actually, Aspell), and often I have no errors. When this
is the case, however, Mutt does not indicate that the spell
checker ran at all! Is there any way I can tell Mutt to display a
message, for instance, Ispell exited with
David T-G [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
To really do it right you should get a domain and have that at your house,
but realistically you could probably use home.explodingnet.com (since
you control the domain and it's your home computer) or nick.yourisp.com
(though that won't show up in a DNS
Derek D. Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This is part of the Unix philosophy, which goes something like, if
there's nothing to report, then report nothing. Armed with this
knowledge, there's really no need for such a message...
I would amend that to say, If there's no need to report
Kenneth Pronovici [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ok, I get it. Errors and output disappear so fast that you can't
really see them, which I hadn't noticed before. Doing what I suggested
above would at least let you see that *something* ran, though. Hmm, not
as worthwhile as I thought, sorry.
David T-G [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think the actual flea is that ispell does not follow
$wait_key, myself.
I'll buy that.
Who wants to start a movement to get that changed, or submit a
feature patch?
I could do the former or the latter, although the latter would
require permission from
Derek D. Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
No manager I've ever worked for would tolerate waiting 3 minutes to
open their inbox...
That's funny because where I work, we use Lotus Notes, and I'm
sure many managers routinely wait this long for Notes to open
their inboxes (particularly if they
darren chamberlain [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In vim:
set titleold=My\ Old\ Xterm\ Title
and it will restore the xterm's title to that string.
Yes, but I'd like Vim to restore the XTerm title to whatever it
was before I started Vim. This might be something different each
time.
--
David T-G [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I seem to be the only one who likes percent, but if I used one of |:}#
then apparently nobody would mind since mutt would already recognize it.
Hm.
% grep 'quote_regexp\|smiley' .muttrc
set quote_regexp=^([ \t]*)+
set smileys=From
;-(
Sam
Jeremy Blosser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Feb 03, Collin Peters [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
macro pager i sync-mailboxchange-folder?toggle-mailboxes
macro index i sync-mailboxchange-folder?toggle-mailboxes
You shouldn't need the explicit sync-mailbox in there, since
change-folder will
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