On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 02:42:20PM +0200, Ulrich Lauther wrote: > BTW, in my current environment - Ubuntu 12.4 - pressing F1 does NOT > bring up the mutt-manual, but the manual of the gnome-termial in which > it is run.
Well, I explained how to fix that in a previous post. But since you mention Ubuntu 12, open systems settings, then: Hardware -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts -> Launchers -> launch help browser And set it to disabled (if it isn't already). If that alone doesn't solve it, you may also need to disable F1 behavior in gnome-terminal if you use that as your terminal... IIRC there isn't a menu option for it, you have to use some gconf command, google will help you find it I'm sure. > but did not understand the concept of "from you": how knows mutt who is me? > > I was then directed to the alternates command, and found > > "That's the purpose of the alternates command: It takes a > list of regular expressions, each of which can identify an > address under which you receive e-mail." > > This again confused me: I wanted a decision based on the From: field, > so I was thinking of sending, not receiving. As I mentioned though, there's really no reason this should be confusing: The list of addresses to which you receive mail is (theoretically) the same list of e-mail addresses you send mail as. This should be obvious. You could replace either "send as" or "receive to" with "use" and it would be perfectly fine. > It takes a list of regular expressions, each of which can identify > an address under which you receive or send e-mail. > It may be used in the index_format with the format-string %F to indicate > that a message is from you It doesn't really make sense to call out this one example of how alternates is used, as it is used in several ways. However it should, arguably, list them ALL. > When writing this message I had a hard time to find the relevant parts of > the manual. > One would, e.g., expect a list of all variables in > http://mutt-ng.berlios.de/manual/variables.html And so you do. The table of obsolete variables that starts the section is just that, and is followed immediately by the rest of the variables. Note at the bottom of the page, you'll see the entry for $abort_noattach, which you will note is not in the obsolete table. Clicking through the "next" links gives you all of the variables, with one variable per page. Granted, this is a horrible, horrible way to present the list of variables; but this is a problem with the way the HTML version of the manual is presented--not a problem with the manual itself per se. > Not so. Just obsolete variables are shown (and now valid counterparts). > So index_format is there, alternates not. You won't find alternates there because it is not a variable (though it was, once, but no longer). It's a command. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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