Susan Kleinmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) muttered: > I must still be doing something wrong: I can't believe that every single > person who uses mutt has to cut and paste all 3 or 4 help screens into an > editor, then do a bunch of editing, just to find out which few keys are > available to assign to macros.
Why don't you just try the key yout want to use and see wheather it's bound or not. > <f1> > <f10> > Some messages in the mutt-users archives implies that the > above really means: <f1>...<f10> Yes? > So is "key" to be understood as "a short string" in all cases? Of cause. macro index .test ":color index green blue .<enter>" "Make all ugly" > it struck me that mutli-key macros must indeed be possible. They are. > But if "key" is to be understood as "short string" for macros then how > does the command parser know when the beginning of a short string has > been entered, as opposed to a series of individual commands? It can't. They must be unique for every menu resp. context. That is you should not use ths string "alpha" for a pager macro since "a" is bound to <create-alias>. Alias keys are only evaluated at to, cc, bcc prompts. HTH, Michael -- "We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds." (Linus Torvalds about the superiority of Linux on the Amterdam Linux Symposium) PGP-Key: http://www-stud.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/~tatgeml/public.key
