Previously, you (Charles Curley) wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 04:15:44PM +0200, Gero Treuner wrote:
> -> Hi!
> ->
> -> On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 10:42:19PM +0000, kromJx wrote:
> -> > Is there a copy of doc/manual.txt online somewhere?
> ->
> -> http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual.txt (1.0.1 version)
> ->
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> doc/manual.txt may be there, but for reading on line and searching it is
> nearly useless. It appears to be designed to throw at a printer. The ^h_
> stuff for underlining makes it impossible to read headlines, and makes
> searches difficult because you may have to search twice. How about also
> including the manual as html?
Use 'less' to read it, not your text editor (as it sounds you are doing).
less understands ^h as makespace and allows searching in the natural way,
as well as displaying the bold and underline on-screen if your terminal
supports it.
Sam
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