On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 03:42:47PM +0100, Thibaut Marty wrote: > On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 10:28:46AM +0100, nfb wrote: > > Cameron, you meant, hit 'g' always prepended by ';', didn't you? I > > spent lots of time trying out, because i didn't know about the > > existence of the ';' function, which i discoverd from a subsequent > > mail. So simply hitting 'g' was not working. But it's not your fault, > > i thought if there were tagged entries, the action would automatically > > refer to all of them, but actually you have to explicitly tell mutt > > you want to operate on all the tagged entries with ';'. You obviously > > were silently implying it ;) > > You can set this option in your .muttrc for this purpose: > set auto_tag = yes
Thank you for this extra bit of information. It is indeed very convenient... i think i will set it!