On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 01:04:23PM -0500, David Champion wrote: > * On 19 Jul 2012, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > "If you define a macro to work with a single entry, then it can > > not be applied to tagged entries just by using > > <tag-prefix>macro-key!!!" is flat-out false in every version of > > mutt I have access to. This means that the entire section > > "Special usage: applying to several tagged entries" is both > > false and useless. > > It's not false or useless, but it is incomplete.
Sorry, I started my big mail before I saw this. :) > What it means is that if a macro contains two or more operations, > and you press your <tag-prefix> keystroke before executing the > macro, it will execute the first operation on each tagged entry > and then execute each subsequent operation on the current entry, > whichever entry happens to be current after the first operation is > done. > > The current wording is correct in a logical sense, but not in a > practical sense. Perhaps it should say: > > If you define a macro to work with a single entry, then it can not > **necessarily** be applied to tagged entries just by using > <tag-prefix>macro-key! > > Or: > > If you define a macro to perform multiple actions, then it can not > be applied to tagged entries just by using <tag-prefix>macro-key! > > Or: > > <tag-prefix> affects only the next action performed by a macro, > not the entire macro as a whole. I got into documentation mode and suggested some rather extensive additions; please let me know what you think. -Robin -- http://singinst.org/ : Our last, best hope for a fantastic future. .i ko na cpedu lo nu stidi vau loi jbopre .i danfu lu na go'i li'u .e lu go'i li'u .i ji'a go'i lu na'e go'i li'u .e lu go'i na'i li'u .e lu no'e go'i li'u .e lu to'e go'i li'u .e lu lo mamta be do cu sofybakni li'u
