On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:38:10AM -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > On Sunday, August 9 at 09:14 PM, quoth Robert Holtzman: >> The problem was that I stupidly modified the list of mail lists to >> duplicate the list of mailboxes. When I went back and realized what I >> had done I restored both lists from my backup (let's hear it for >> backups!)and added the rkhunter and sounder lists. Now I'm getting >> this error message: >> >> Error in /home/holtzm/.muttrc, line 298: +saved-slrn-user: unknown >> command source: errors in /home/holtzm/.muttrc Press any key to >> continue... > > Generally speaking, that means that you have a line that starts with > “+saved-slrn-usr”, rather than with a regular command. > >> #mailboxes ! +mutt-dev +mutt-users +open-pgp +wmaker +hurricane +vim >> +ietf \ >> 287 # +drums >> 288 >> 289 >> 290 mailboxes ! +INCOMING +list-Chevelle +list-PLUG-discuss >> +list-alpine-info \ >> 291 +list-clamav +list-debian-users +list-exim-users >> +list-firefox-support \ >> 292 +list-gnupg-users +list-mondo-devel +list-mutt-users >> +list-openoffice-discuss \ >> 293 +list-openoffice-users +list-procmail +list-slrn-user >> +list-ubuntu-users +spam \ >> 294 +list-rkhunter +list-sounder +list+saved-alpine >> +saved-Chevelle +saved-clamav \ >> 295 +saved-debian-users +saved-firefox-support >> +saved-gnupg-users +saved-mondo-devel \ >> 296 +saved-mutt-users +saved-openoffice-users +saved-PLUG >> +saved-procmail \ >> 297 +saved-slrn-user +saved-ubuntu-users +saved-messages \ >> 298 #mailboxes `echo $HOME/Mail/*` > > Two things: first, I think you have a space at the end of line 295 > (after the backslash), which breaks the line wrapping. Second, you told > mutt to connect lines 297 and 298 (with the backslash at the end), so > mutt identifies the whole line by it’s last line number.
That nailed it. I never would have caught it. >> The line wrapping is weird but you can follow it. > > When I get into trouble like that, I always first glue the wrapped lines > back together. You have no idea how often (or in how many different > programs) doing that has revealed to me that I had a simple > line-wrapping error, rather than some other problem. That tip is worth a lot of beer if you're ever in the area. >>> (Do you know what the + is there for?) >> >> As a matter of fact no. Explain, please. > > I thought not - lots of folks get tripped up by that. It’s actually a > shortcut for a mailbox specification. Both the + symbol and the = symbol > can be used when specifying a mailbox name as a shorthand for the value > of $folder. > > Think of it this way (I’m using example names here): the mailboxes > command expects FULL PATHS to mailboxes, like this: > > mailboxes /home/myname/mail/inbox /home/myname/mail/lists > > But that’s a lot to type, and can make the list of mailboxes hard to > read. BUT, you can do this instead: > > set folder=/home/myname/mail > mailboxes +inbox +lists > > The equals sign is a synonym for the plus sign in this context, and can > be used as well, if you prefer it: > > set folder=/home/myname/mail > mailboxes =inbox =lists > > This can be especially useful when using things like imap, where $folder > is something big and ugly like > “imaps://user:passw...@imap.server.com/INBOX”. > That's the kind of information I have never bee able to get running searches and reading docs. >>>>> What, specifically, are you trying to do? I mean, you can >>>>> literally start a www browser in an external program by doing >>>>> this: >>>>> >>>>> !firefox >>>> >>>> Not sure where in ~/.muttrc to put this. >>> >>> I didn’t say you put that in your muttrc, I said you’d “do” that, by >>> which I mean “this is a key sequence to press while running mutt.” >>> Sorry if I was unclear. By default, the exclamation mark (pressed >>> while mutt is running) tells mutt to get ready to run a shell >>> command. Once you press that, type in “firefox” (or whatever command >>> to launch a web browser), and hit return. That will cause mutt to run >>> that command. >>> >>> But that’s just a way to “launch a web browser”, not a way to send >>> URLs from your email to that browser. >> >> Pardon my seeming ingratitude but from your description, it doesn't >> seem to do any more than if I switched workspaces, opened FF and pasted >> in the url. Did I miss something? > > Nope, that’s exactly right. I didn’t quite understand what you were > trying to do, so that seemed as good an answer as any other. > I was hoping to duplicate slrn's capability of showing a menu with all the urls in the message allowing you to highlight one and hit <return>. That opens the browser in the ~/.slrnrc file and loads the selected url. I ran across the urlscan package in the repository and installed it. The description indicates that it is at least close to what I want. Haven't had a chance to play with it yet. I noticed that I had inadvertantly replied directly to you a couple of times instead of to the list. My apologies. Many thanks for walking me thru all this. Coming over from pine/alpine, mutt's rc file is a little weird but I'm slowly getting it. Take care. -- Bob Holtzman "If you think you're getting free lunch, check the price of the beer"
