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." Or, another favorite: "(no subject)." Sometimes followups will change to something more sensible; sometimes I want to change an entire thread's subject to something meaningful so I can find it (I'd be simply deleting it if I didn't think I'd want to find it later). So, somebody starts a thread with subject: "Help!" and eventually somebody else supplies some really interesting tidbits about dynamic optimization. Well... you get the idea. > % I tried the '|' pipe function, ";|..." piping to: > % > % sed 's/^Subject: .*$/Subject: Re: This Thread.../' > % > % but nothing happened, except for seeing the last tagged > % mail on my screen with "press any key to continue..." > % at the bottom. > > Of course... You simply shot a lot of messages out to a shell command; > nothing said to read them back into your spool again. Ah, I now understand more about that pipe function. If I use: sed 's/^Subject: .*$/Subject: Re: This Thread.../' >>~/<path-to-folder> then the new-subject messages do appear, so maybe this is a quick solution. I assume there isn't a builtin variable for <path-to-folder> that would work in the line above. Obviously, when I really start using this, I'll make a little shell script that encapsulates all the sed ugliness and takes "This Thread..." as an argument; if I could also feed it the folder name symbolically, so much the better, but I suspect I'll have to tell that to the shell environment myself, outside Mutt. BTW, is there a way to avoid the screen display, the "press any key to continue..." bit? It erases the xterm screen; no big deal, but if I could avoid the erasure it'd be nice. > % Can I do this Subject-line editing in Mutt? > % I'm using 1.2.5.1. > > I don't think that you can ;e to <tag-prefix><edit-message> but if you > can upgrade to 1.3.x (currently .27) you could apply Cedric Duval's > excellent edit_threads patch and just fix the threading itself. It's > quite cool. I'll definitely check that out. 1.3.25 said I needed to install the iconv stuff, so I've got that on the top of my to-do stack. Thanks again, Jim
