Maciej Kalisiak muttered: > For some of us mutt's current behaviour in this regard is > non-intuitive, so clearing these things up in the manual would help us from > pulling our hair out. > I got bitten badly by the ambiguity in the manual regarding the "~A" pattern. > Naive me thought that "all messages" means "all messages", and would have > never guessed it meant "all *visible* messages".
I don't find it uninuitive, BUT you're right the manual is unclear in some respect. Imagine you (l)imit a certain pattern and want to move those messages to another place. Tag all, tag-save, done. Easy and the behavior _I_ would expect. I rarely use collapsing; though. > My default folder view is with collapsed threads and I was opening mh > folders and moving all messages to new mbox style ones: > > T~A\n;s=newmbox\n > > After checking that the first few mailboxes were transferred correctly > (which as fate would have it didn't have more than one message per > thread) I did the rest quickly. As deleted messages in mh folders > still leave files, I "rm -rf" those directories once they were > converted. Only three-quarters of the way through did I realize that > the collapsed messages were not being copied over. Argh!!! Luckily I > can probably get 95% of the lost messages from various backups, but > it's a massive headache. Poor guy!!! > After browsing the Net on this topic I later found that apparently > other commands also ignore collapsed messages (I think searching was > one of them). Can someone list which commands ignore threads and > which don't? search and tag ignore messages in collapsed threads limit doen't. Any more? HTH, Michael -- PGP-Key: http://www-stud.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/~tatgeml/public.key
