On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 08:47:02AM -0600, Marty Buchaus wrote: > Default mapping woudl be > > Tag the messages you want to work on.
Yes, I coulda done that but there were A WHOLE LOT of them so I figured Mutt had a faster way to do it. Another poster showed me how to do a tag-pattern, which made it easier to do. > > then hit ; to act on all tagged messages > > then W you should see Clear flag? (D/N/O/r/*/!): > > > if you hit w it would be the reverse (set flag) > > Marty > > On 01/21/20 11:14 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > >* Patrick Shanahan <p...@opensuse.org> [01-21-20 11:09]: > >>* Fred Smith <fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> [01-21-20 10:59]: > >>>I've got a mailbox with quite a few msgs in it, some I've never read but > >>>don't want to delete. All those now have a status flag of "O", so if I > >>>enter that mailbox when there are no "N" messages in it, mutt goes to the > >>>first "O" mail. > >>>One way I can think of to solve this is to clear all the flags, since in > >>>this case I don't care aobut the flags value. > >>>It looks as if Mutt has facilities that could be used for that, but I > >>>haven't figured out how to apply them. > >>>Can someone show me how to do that? > >>>Thanks in advance. > >>tag all of the "O" flagged msgs > >>"T" will tag a pattern, invoke in directory view, capitol T > >>pattern would be: ~O > >>invoke action "W" on tagged, :W > >>"W" clears flag > >>issue clear-flag for the tagged msgs > >two lines beginning with "invoke action" s/b belowe "issue clear-flag" ... > >clear as muddd :) > > -- > William Marty Buchaus Jr > Linux Engineer @ Rackspace > Real Estate Investor REI > https://realhousehunters.com > Meet On the Level Part Upon the Square -- ---- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------- "For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart." ---------------------------- Hebrews 4:12 (niv) ------------------------------
