On 2017-10-14 00:14, Jim O wrote: > I want to invoke mutt and have it show me, in the index, > just the mails matching a regex. I can do this by entering > klower-case l from the index, and typing in the regex then, > thereby invoking that limit function. But all my efforts > to do something like: > > mutt -e 'exec limit ~h foo' ~f mailbox > > result in complaints of non-existent functions, despite a pretty > exhaustive suite of quotation variations, putting the function > invocation in a special rc file, throwing "foo" at mutt's stdin, > ad nauseam. The docs imply the limit function is only available > in the index menu, so I suppose the question is how to access that > menu from the initial invocation. > > What's the trick?
Totally untested: maybe you can use the `push' command to stuff the desired sequence into the input queue, and hope mutt is in the index view by the time it starts reading input? -- Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and Usenet, if you also post the followup to the list or newsgroup. Do obvious transformation on domain to reply privately _only_ on Usenet.
