Re: Alias Menu?
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 09:32:33AM -0800, Tim Johnson wrote: Hello All: According to documentation, there should be an alias menu available. 1)How do I invoke it? 2)Where is documentation pertinent to it? Thanks To All... At the address prompt (e.g. when you compose a new message by hitting 'm'), hit TAB. You can hit a few character such as 'mutt' then hit TAB to complete it if the alias 'muttuser' exists. Hard to remember, isn't it? :) -- Linux 2.2.19 #2 Sat Apr 14 12:45:42 CST 2001 i586 unknown 7:00pm up 14 days, 15:11, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Re: japanese with devel mutt
On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 09:40:18PM -0500, Josh Huber wrote: I'm trying out mutt version 1.3.11i, mostly because it has support for automatically switching the charset= line in outgoing emails to the proper encoding. Here's the problem: I can't get japanese to display properly without using something like LANG=ja_JP /usr/local/bin/mutt, which causes subprocessies (like gpg) to run with that language envionment. I'd like it to display text without setting the LANG variable, so I looked at the charset variable, and tried setting it to iso-2022-jp, which didn't seem to do anything, except prevent me from viewing japanese text. (of all things) am I clueless here? anyone have hints on how to set this up? I'm using xemacs with canna for input/sending email, btw. also, is this the proper place for these questions? people on -dev might have a better idea :) thanks in advance, OK here is my take: There are two xterms you can choose to display Japanese character set. However I have only tried the more popular shift-jis encoding, which the other one is deprecated, I think. One is Kanjiterm, Kterm in short. However, it is a bit hard to find. The other one is Aterm, which is called the Afterstep Term. You have to compile Aterm with somthing like "--enable-kanji" with configure. Once you have it compiled. Start Aterm, fire up lynx and load the page "http://www.yahoo.co.jp/". Notice: lynx support for Japanese and Chinese encoding is a bit broken. Enlightened Term (Eterm) said to support Kanji (which is a bad description), I have yet to get it to work, you might need to set the locale variables. However, if you use emacs, you should try out MULE, which is a multi-lingual edition for emacs. If you want X apps to display Japanese, there are more you have to do then just the xterm. Anyone would like to comment further?
Re: Pager oddity
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 04:00:21PM -0600, David Kanter wrote: This is nothing earth-shattering, but rather annoying: Mutt has what looks like an extra cursor lying on top of the highlighting bar over the last character in the message index window. I'm using the slang-based Mutt of OpenBSD. It happens with both rxvt and xterm. This is what happened when the cursor is not being switched off/hidden. In Slang, I believe it is possible to hide the cursor using a Slang function call. If you compile Mutt with Ncurses, the cursor is hidden by default. Also, Ncurses program looks better since it will work with transparent terms while Slang set the background color to black.
Wish-list
It would be great if Mutt support filtered view, for example, one can select only to display new messages, or subject, author that match a regex so that unmatched mails will stay hidden.
Re: color
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 02:56:30AM -0700, Mike E wrote: I'm trying to set up color with mutt (1.2.5i) but I am getting "color: unknown command" errors from my muttrc. Is there some trick that I'm missing? Perhaps you should try colour instead :) Seriously, can you post a few lines before and after the color statement?
Re: Composing a draft?
On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 10:20:06AM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Bob Bell proclaimed on mutt-users that: Just open another mutt session. Unlike many mail editors, you can have multiple instances of mutt running at the same time. However, mailbox flags get modified when you do this - especially with mbox folders. A better thing to do is to use something like gvim or emacs as the editor (both of which pop up in different terms from the mutt window, and multiple sessions of which can be opened leaving your mutt xterm free) Of course, on a console, this means some tedious shifting between alt-f1, alt-f2 ... virtual consoles ;) The problem is mutt will still wait for the editor to finish because mutt will only determine it is a draft when you exit the editor and hit the postpone key. If there is a way to tell mutt not to wait (just start the editor in another thread and handle the draft file), then it is possible to edit a long draft and read other mails at the same time. For the time being, starting another copy of mutt is half a solution. I can think of another solution: create a script that can handle the draft file directly without help from mutt. It will take the draft file, parse it, take the contents out to a temp file, start the editor with the temp file. When editing is done, it will load the temp file back to the draft file and modify the draft file headers and put them back altogether.
Composing a draft?
Hi everyone, Is there a way to tell mutt that I am composing a draft without finishing the editing and do the postpone action? If this is possible, I would like to spawn another terminal (or even an X-based editor) for the editor so I can read other mails while composing a draft? In other words, I prefer the editor not to tie up mutt while composing mail. Any ideas?
Folder format questions
Hi, I have a few questions below: 1) I have set folder_format="%N %30s %f" but I can't see the "N" indicator in the folder index even though some of the mailboxes has new mail (it is always blank). Why? 2) Is it possible to do something like (new messages/old messages) in the folder index? For example it should read like (1/10) showing that there are 1 new message and the total number of messages in the mailbox is 10. My biff show that I have new messages, but I dont know which mailbox unless I manually open them one by one. 3) Is there a way to open the folder index directly without hitting "c" and then "?"? Or should I just re-bind the key "c" to do it? Thanks.
Folder format questions
Hi, I have a few questions below: 1) I have set folder_format="%N %30s %f" but I can't see the "N" indicator in the folder index even though some of the mailboxes has new mail (it is always blank). Why? 2) Is it possible to do something like (new messages/old messages) in the folder index? For example it should read like (1/10) showing that there are 1 new message and the total number of messages in the mailbox is 10. My biff show that I have new messages, but I dont know which mailbox unless I manually open them one by one. 3) Is there a way to open the folder index directly without hitting "c" and then "?"? Or should I just re-bind the key "c" to do it? Thanks.
