Re: where does it search

Hi, * bill lam wrote: Thanks Vance and Kyle. I once had to kill mutt when searching gmail imap with ~b. If your mutt is recent enough, it also supports body caching so that already viewed message won't be downloaded again (for searching or any other operation):

Re: where does it search

Hi, * Vance Shipley wrote: I have been using a bookmark for http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual. I now see that a more up to date manual is here http://dev.mutt.org/doc/manual.html where this is documented. It's not about outdated or up-to-date, please use the manual for the version of mutt you're

where does it search

In index page, / or T can search a pattern or regex, and there are modifiers like ~h ~b to force searching inside header or body etc. But what is the context for searching without any such modifiers, does it search the header or body or just what is visible of the index screen? TIA -- regards,

Re: where does it search

Hi, * bill lam wrote: In index page, / or T can search a pattern or regex, and there are modifiers like ~h ~b to force searching inside header or body etc. But what is the context for searching without any such modifiers, does it search the header or body or just what is visible of the index

Re: where does it search

Bill, Something which is undocumented, as far as I can see, is that when working with an IMAP mail store you can search conduct the search on the server. If you do a /~b it will have to download all the messages to do the search. If you replace '~' with '=' in your search pattern (e.g. /=b foo)

Re: where does it search

On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Rocco Rutte wrote: This feature is called simple search, see $simple_search and its documentation: mutt generates a pattern with modifiers for you. Thank you Rocco! The friendly way to rtfm. ;-) -- regards, GPG key

Re: where does it search

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday, September 25 at 12:38 PM, quoth Vance Shipley: Something which is undocumented, as far as I can see, is that when working with an IMAP mail store you can search conduct the search on the server. If you do a /~b it will have to

Re: where does it search

Kyle, I have been using a bookmark for http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual. I now see that a more up to date manual is here http://dev.mutt.org/doc/manual.html where this is documented. -Vance On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 11:48:17AM -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote: } From the muttrc man page: } }

Re: where does it search

Thanks Vance and Kyle. I once had to kill mutt when searching gmail imap with ~b. -- regards, GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3