On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 01:04:23PM -0500, David Champion wrote: > * On 19 Jul 2012, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > "If you define a macro to work with a single entry, then it can not > > be applied to tagged entries just by using <tag-prefix>macro-key!!!" > > is flat-out false in every version of mutt I have access to. This > > means that the entire section "Special usage: applying to several > > tagged entries" is both false and useless. > > It's not false or useless, but it is incomplete. > > What it means is that if a macro contains two or more operations, and > you press your <tag-prefix> keystroke before executing the macro, it > will execute the first operation on each tagged entry and then execute > each subsequent operation on the current entry, whichever entry happens > to be current after the first operation is done.
Very easy to understand. So why not say it that way. > The current wording is correct in a logical sense, but not in a > practical sense. Perhaps it should say: > > If you define a macro to work with a single entry, then it can > not **necessarily** be applied to tagged entries just by using > <tag-prefix>macro-key! Not as easy to understand > Or: > > If you define a macro to perform multiple actions, then it can not be > applied to tagged entries just by using <tag-prefix>macro-key! > Not as easy to understand > > <tag-prefix> affects only the next action performed by a macro, not the > entire macro as a whole. Not as easy to understand. -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X
