Hi, mea culpa, mea culpa...
I had two set sorts in my muttrc... and the second one was overwriting the good one... Ok, that fixes the sort issue... now, macro indeces... I got this email: ----------------------------- Alain Bench <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hello, On Saturday, August 18, 2007 at 23:21:08 +0200, Vim Visual wrote: >| macro index <F5> 'c ~/mail/inbox ^M' > doesn't work Let's first write the macro cleanly: - <function> names instead of keys - <Key> symbols instead of obscure key notations - drop harmfull spaces (by default the <Space> key is bound to the <buffy-cycle> function at this prompt) | macro index <F5> <change-folder>~/mail/inbox<Enter> Does this work? Bye! Alain. ----------------------------------------- and I say: A huge, vast, enormous THANK YOU to Alain! That fixed it! And now the very last question: I ssh to a linux box to check the email. This is more convenient because that pc is part of a cluster and is being backup'ed every night... When I ssh it from my OpenBSD laptop mutt is behaving well but for ONE thing: backspace does not work, so that I cannot scroll up the screen... I get a "this key has not been defined" message, but it has because when I physically log in on that box, it is working and, when I use mutt from the very openbsd laptop, backspace is also working fine. It is only the combination openbsd laptop + ssh tunnel to a linux box what breaks backspace... any hint?? Pau > > > Use 'sort' instead of 'sort-browser'. > > > > set sort=reverse-date ? > > > > doesn't work either... I get the threads: > > > > 288 r + Aug 17 Woodchuck ( 795) Calvin II > > 289 r + Aug 17 Woodchuck ( 48) +-+-> > > 290 + Aug 17 Woodchuck ( 20) | +-> > > 291 r + Aug 17 Woodchuck ( 11) +-> > > 292 + Aug 17 Woodchuck ( 49) +-> > > 293 + Aug 18 Woodchuck ( 49) +-> > > :set sort=reverse-date-received > > The possible values are listed in this section of the manual: > > 3.269. sort > > Type: sort order > Default: date > > Specifies how to sort messages in the index menu. Valid values > are: > > date or date-sent > date-received > from > mailbox-order (unsorted) > score > size > spam > subject > threads > to > > You may optionally use the reverse- prefix to specify reverse > sorting order (example: set sort=reverse-date-sent). > > Another way to find the 'sort' value is to type the 'o' or 'O' > commands, choose the sort order that appeals to you, then execute > > :set ?sort > > to see the value you'd need to put in your muttrc. > > That being said, if you executed "set sort=reverse-date", you should > not have seen messages sorted by threads. Perhaps 'sort' is also > being set by a hook? > > > > > > macro index <F5> 'c ~/mail/inbox ^M' > > > > > > > > doesn't work any more, with Mutt 1.5.16 (2007-06-09). It worked under > > > > fedora5 with Mutt 1.4.1i (2003-03-19) > > > > > > You didn't say what "doesn't work" means, > > > > doesn't work = when I press F5 mutt doesn't react at all; no error > > message wahtsoever and, of course, I do not get to inbox. > > > > > > > termcap or terminfo data being used by mutt to determine the > > > character sequence to send for <F5> is missing or not correct for > > > the terminal you are using. Check that your $TERM environment > > > variable is correct. Then execute > > > > > > infocmp -1 | grep kf5 > > > > > > to see what character sequence, if any, is defined for <F5>. ("-1" > > > is "minus one", not "minus ell".) > > > > F5 is not missing. In my vimrc I have > > > > map <F5> mx{v}gq'x > > > > and using it works as a charm. > > > > Nevertheless, > > > > elachistos| infocmp -1 | grep kf5 > > kf5=\E[15~, > > > > and I used that in muttrc to redefine it and didn't work either... > > > > Choosing other character, like "5" or "P" doesn't work either. > > You're saying that you used one of those characters to define the > macro, like this? > > macro index P 'c ~/mail/inbox ^M' > > And that didn't work either? Did you define the macro at mutt's > command line or just in your muttrc? I just tried that macro by > defining it at my command line and it worked fine. (I changed the > folder name to one I had.) Is it possible that your muttrc file is > not being read? > > > By the way, > > > > elachistos| echo $TERM > > xterm-xfree86 > > > > This is set so because it solved a lot of problems I had in mutt > > reconising the defined colours > > You had these problems while you were using Fedora or only after > moving to OpenBSD? Did you have problems with vim's colors at the > same time? > > I'm sorry I'm giving you more questions than answers. I'm just not > making any sense yet of what you're observing. > > Regards, > Gary >