Hi Michael, On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 12:34:37PM +0000, Michael Kjorling wrote: > I often find myself in the situation of wanting to find messages > "from" a given person, that have been replied to (immediate child node > in the thread tree) by another given person, and preferably see the > two messages together in the index while hiding others. Sometimes I > don't remember specific enough key words to be able to filter on > message body content, and often, both individuals are regular > contributors so simply filtering on either sender, or threads > containing messages from both (something like "~(~f A) ~(~f B)"), > yields a large number of false positives. > > Can someone suggest a better way?
There would be a better way I think, with the following awaiting patch: http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3144 This includes the < and > pattern modifiers to match respectively the parent and a child. The exact match of your request would then be: ~(<~f A ~f B) Regards, -- Jeremie Le Hen < jeremie at le-hen dot org >< ttz at chchile dot org >