* Marty Buchaus <ma...@dabuke.com> [01-23-20 17:20]: > Default mapping woudl be > > Tag the messages you want to work on. > > 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 :)
and besides, why private mail me and also post to the list and I wasn't even the OP. But I guess that is how a "linux engineer" would address a problem. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode