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> I've just started using mutt, and haven't got all the config stuff
> worked out, which is why this message is coming from elm :-)
Welcome anyway.. (of course you will be charged 0.05$ for each answer if you
don't use mutt ;) Nope, just joking. :)
> Anyway, I'd REALLY like to be able to change directories while inside
> mutt; that's one of the things I've found wanting in elm that I hoped
> mutt would remedy. I looked through the help and doc files without
> finding it, then looked through the archives and found the following
> two messages relevant:
You mean like c does? Try it. you can change the default setting by setting
the $folder variable in your .muttrc...
> >How do I change the current working directory from within a running mutt?
> >(or the default save location in the attachment menu)
>
It has to be in the manual... and in the help. try hitting ?
> That's great, if I want to edit .muttrc and re-start mutt every time I
> want to save attachments to a different directory. But I don't; I want
> to be able to change directories several times in one invocation of
> mutt.
Hm, you can use
:source .muttrc
to reread your .muttrc without restarting.
> Here's why: I'm a CS professor, and most of my students turn in their
> homework by e-mail. The morning after a due date, I suddenly have
> dozens of e-mails full of attachments, all of which need to be saved in
> different places. For example, Joe Schmoe's homework 4 (comprising half
> a dozen attachments) belongs in ~/class/270/hw/hw4/jschmoe, while Jane
> Doe's homework 5 (she's in a different class, which happened to have an
> assignment due the same day) belongs in ~/class/344/hw/hw5/jdoe.
you could define a macro to set your folder to ~/class and browse to your
desired folder..
HTH
Kai
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