On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:54:21AM +0000, chombee wrote: > On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 05:23:42PM +0100, Michael Tatge wrote: > > * On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 02:20PM +0000 chombee (chom...@lavabit.com) muttered: > > > I've noticed that mutt doesn't seem to write changes to my local > > > maildirs until I hit $ or change maildirs. Is there a way to get it to > > > automatically write changes to a local maildir? > > > > Simply put - no. > > You could write macros that do [someaction]<sync-mailbox> eg. > > <delete-message><sync-mailbox> but that's obviously dangerous. > > Ah well, I'll just have to get used to pressing $. I'm kind of surprised > that mutt doesn't automatically save changes after a timeout, as in the > autosave feature of most text editors, although come to think of it only > GUI text editors do that. > I prefer the way it is, in fact I sometimes depend on it, I delete a mail and then (before leaving the mailbox) decide I want to save it.
-- Chris Green
