Setting tab size in pager

How can I control the number of spaces a tab character uses when reading mail in the pager? Mutt 1.3.99i. TIA, Jim

Viewing both text and image

I'm on a list where most of the traffic consists of a paragraph or two of text and an accompanying chart as an image attachment. I really need to be able to see the image as I read the text, and it'd be nice to be able to do that within Mutt. I haven't figured out how to get the image to xv

Re: bind ^H to backward-char in editor

On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 10:23:38AM +0200, Wojciech Krygier wrote: Just in case it might be helpful: bind editor \ch backward-char works fine here, even without unbinding its previous action Hi Wojciech, Just so I understand a bit more, what action did your \ch key perform before you re-bound

Re: bind ^H to backward-char in editor

On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 07:27:43AM +0200, Nicolas Rachinsky wrote: modern keyboards and tty drivers easily can tell the two apart. That's not always true. Look at the output of stty -a if it contains something like erase=^H then your Backspacekey (if it's working) is producing ^H.

Re: bind ^H to backward-char in editor

On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 10:23:38AM +0200, Wojciech Krygier wrote: Just in case it might be helpful: bind editor \ch backward-char works fine here, even without unbinding its previous action, so it seems that it isn't mutt fault. I would check the terminal definitions instead. Try console

Re: bind ^H to backward-char in editor

On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 07:24:57PM -0700, I wrote: I want to use Control-H to move the cursor to the left in Mutt's line editor, as I have it in all my other tools. The sole response I've had to this question was from someone who thought I was referring to the editor used to write the content

Re: bind ^H to backward-char in editor

On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 09:12:48PM -0600, Rob 'Feztaa' Park wrote: What exactly are you referring to when you say ^H? The backspace key? Or the actual ^H character? Sorry, that ^H notation is an old Unix convention for Control-H--- the control key pressed simultaneously with the h key. I used

Re: bind ^H to backward-char in editor

On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 04:55:32AM +0100, munk wrote: What type of terminal/console are you using? Linux console, or more often, xterm. US keyboard map, pc101 keyboard. If I understand you correctly, you mean that when you type something like: :set bleh=backspace in the line

bind ^H to backward-char in editor

I want to use Control-H to move the cursor to the left in Mutt's line editor, as I have it in all my other tools. Since the default action for ^H in the editor is backspace, I tried bind editor \ch noop bind editor \ch backward-char to no avail---still get backspace, not backward-char. Then

Re: Editing Subject lines of tagged msgs

On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 09:33:49AM -0600, Jeremy Blosser wrote: Really though, this is probably something better done with a quick shell script from the command line. Could you elaborate on this remark? Are you suggesting working entirely outside Mutt? Thanks again, Jim

Re: Editing a set of Subject lines

On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 06:44:20AM -0500, David T-G wrote: I presume, then, that they can't thread properly, either. Hmmm. I wonder what mailer such contributors are using... ;-) Not usually Mutt. :) Often the subject will be completely off, say the ever popular, Re: blah blah Digest #58.