<quote who="Nick Croft">
> Wish there was a how-to for the long-time Pine user moving to Mutt!
> I just love the technicolour.
You can use the pine-like muttrc file that (I think) comes with mutt, it's
certainly in the Debian packages.
> Question: How to do bulk actions, as in Pine, where you use the `;' key,
> then select a range of message numbers, then `a' to apply a command to the lot?
You are talking weird pine language. ;) I haven't used it since uni...
Generally doing bulk actions in mutt is a matter of tagging with t and then
doing something random.
I use auto_tag = yes, which means that everything I tag is automatically
affected by the next command. When you don't have auto_tag on, I think you
use semi-colon too. I forget, my mutt config has babied me. ;)
> E.g. I sort my mail spool by `from' and decide that everything from a sender should
> go to a certain folder. There's gotta be a way.
Another funky thing in mutt is search-tagging and limiting. To tag mails by
searching you hit shift-T, and enter the usual mutt query stuff (all
documented in the manual).
Limiting is even cooler. Type l, and then the usual mutt query stuff.
Presto, none of the noise! :)
> Btw, thanks to Jeff. I've borrowed half your muttrc.
:)
It's funny seeing various bits and pieces from my muttrc popping up on
mailing lists every now and then. I had a short correspondence with a "Jeff
Waugh" from Finland a while back...
"Oh! You're Jeff Waugh with the muttrc!"
"Possibly, it seems that you're also Jeff Waugh with the muttrc, however."
;)
- Jeff
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