On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 11:19:34AM -0400, Brett Sanger wrote:
> Okay, just started using mutt, (previously used pine, decided to make the
> switch). I've heard pretty much nothing but good things about mutt, so
> I'm assuming most of my issues can be resolved, I just don't know how. I
> haven't used elm, so I can't import any knowledge from that.
I'll try to answer the questions I can that I didn't see answered by
others.
> The navigation seems kind of inconsistent. While reading from the spool
> file, <return> takes you inward, and "i" takes you to the message listing.
> Except that if you try to change mail folders, "i" no longer works, you
> want <tab>. "q" takes you out of menus, but <ctrl-G> gets you out of
> prompts. Vi is the default editor, but in-program prompts use Emacs
> bindings. Is it just something to get used to, or is there some unifying
> concept that I'm not getting?
I think "q" will always work to exit a view, even if the help line says
"i:Exit". I don't know why "i" is used this way. It may be a mnemonic
for "return to Index", but that's not always where it returns you. If
it bothers you, you can put
bind pager i noop
in your muttrc which will unbind "i" and change the help line to
"q:Exit".
<ctrl-G> gets you out of prompts because that's how emacs works, which
is consistent with the command-line editing commands. I think that's
just something you have to get used to. There are other programs that
use (or can use) emacs key bindings for command-line editing even though
they use vi-like key bindings for screen navigation, e.g. w3m and vim.
I think the reason for using emacs key bindings is that it is simpler to
write a modeless command-line editor and because the editing commands
can be bound to the arrow, end, and home keys, which some people prefer.
> Currently, I have three locations for mail: my spool file/dir (forget
> which exim uses), ~/Mail/* folders, and ~/mbox. I haven't come up with a
> convenient way to navigate between these. "c" lets me hop into any of the
> ~/Mail/* easily, but then getting back to the spool or to ~/mbox requires
> more work than I'd expect for the "default" places for mail. am I missing
> something? (I know I can tell mutt to use an alternate in place of
> ~/mbox, but surely there's a better way to get to the mbox its using than
> to specifiy path/file?)
If you include your spool file in your 'mailboxes' list, you can get to
it via the "c" command, too. I would think that you would want your
spool file in your 'mailboxes' list anyway so that mutt will look there
for new mail.
To quickly navigate to your spool file, your mbox file, and a few other
special files, you can follow "c" by one of the shortcuts listed in
section 4.7 of the mutt manual. For example, "c!" will take you to
your spool file.
> I've stumbled across the following flags so far: rT+*FO. Of those, I've
> figured out (read) that r is replied-to, and * is tagged. What are +, F,
> and O?
See the mutt manual section 2.3.1.1 Status Flags.
> [ and ] are bound to half-pages in the listing, but not in the pager. Is
> there any navigation beyond <space> and - in the pager?
While in the pager, type "?" for help. I don't remember what the
default bindings are in the pager for the <half-up> and <half-down>
functions (they may be unbound by default), but I have
bind pager [ half-up
bind pager ] half-down
in my muttrc so that "[" and "]" work the same in the pager as in the
index.
Gary
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