* On 2007.02.05, in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, * "Christian Ebert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One of the very few features I am missing in Mutt is the ability > to jump to the last read message. This is often available in > newsreaders. > > For instance if I sort threads and tab jump to the next unread > message, sometimes I'd like to go back to the last read, and have > to search for it first. > > Anybody else interested in such a feature? > Or could it be done with a macro? > Or did I even overlook something?
http://home.uchicago.edu/~dgc/sw/mutt/patch-1.5.11.dgc.markmsg.2 provides an operation <mark-msg> which constructs a macro to <search> by Message-ID, using the current message's Message-ID. It's modelled on vi's feature to mark lines with "m" and return to them with "'". For example, if I'm in the pager on Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, then entering <mark-msg>a<enter> results in a macro 'a that issues <search>~i "<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"<enter>. With this patch you could build your feature as a macro (e.g., macro index <space> "<mark-msg>previous<enter><display-message>"; "'previous" to jump back), or you could implement it in code using the same technique as this patch uses. -- -D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] NSIT University of Chicago
