* On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 04:18:05PM -0500, * Mike Schiraldi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I guess we're talking about different things here. I'll try to be more > specific: > > I come into work in the morning and go into my =mutt folder. There are, say, > 50 unread messages that have arrived since yesterday. I don't feel like > reading them now, so i go to the next mailbox. In some mailboxes, i read the > unread messages. In other mailboxes i leave them for later. > > Now i want to go back and read the unread messages that i skipped. I can > press the <change-folder> key and go to whatever mailbox is the > default. This is great, because the default is always takes me to the next > mailbox containing unread messages. If no mailboxes contain unread messages, > there is no default. > > However, sometimes i want to see a list of all mailboxes containing unread > messages. But the folder list's %N escape does not show this. It shows which > folders have had new mail placed in them since the last time i visited > them. I'd like to add an escape sequence that marks any folders that contain > unread mail. > > You're saying that processing such an escape sequence would require a lot of > new code in mutt and take a lot of time, because looking for unread messages > is slow and hard. But i find that strange because mutt already has a way of > identifying folders with unread messages, and it uses it to pick a default > for the <change-folders> command. > > I use maildir -- perhaps that is why your results differ from mine?
Look for mark_old in the manual. Perhaps unsetting mark_old and something like the old2new.pl script from my homepage are what you want. Nicolas
