On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 07:03:23AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 03:45:06PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> > Yes (not the OP here though), however it has always seemed odd to me
> > that I can't get mutt to take me to all/any mailboxes which have
> > *unread* mail in them. I.e. I want 'c' to take me to the next mailbox
> > with unread mail in it, *not* to the next mailbox with new mail in it.
>
> Good point. I agree. Not necessarily 'c' though.
>
No it wouldn't need to be 'c' of course, I just wanted to make plain
what I meant.
> Weird, the documentation has (under pattern matching)
>
> ~N New messages
> ~O Old messages
> ~U Unread messages
>
> Just wondering, what is an Unread message if its not New or Old, unless
> its New AND Old together?
>
> Just a quick grep through the docs reveals:
>
> When changing folders, Mutt fills the prompt with the first folder from
> the mailboxes list containing new mail (if any), pressing <Space> will cycle
> through folders with new mail. The (by default unbound) function
> <next-unread-mailbox> in the index can be used to immediately open the
> next folder with unread mail (if any).
>
> Could you try that, and see what happens?
>
I will, I have been playing with this quite a lot recently. Currently
I have:-
set mail_check_recent=no
set mark_old=no
and 'c' doesn't seem to find N[ew] or [O]ld mail - so what *does* it do
that's remotely useful? I'll try assigning a key to next-unread-mailbox
and see what that does for me.
--
Chris Green
