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On Friday, September 4 at 04:43 PM, quoth Thomas Baker:
> I frequently edit entire threads in order to circulate their
> contents -- with redundant quotes and attachments removed and
> headers pruned -- as digests. I wouldn't know how to do that
On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 04:09:56PM -0400, Dave Dodge wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 06:27:09PM +0100, Chris G wrote:
> > anyway when does one want to edit messages, it's not something I've
> > ever wanted to do.
>
> I used to have the same opinion before I had a mailer that made it so
> easy. W
On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 01:15:58PM -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
> On Friday, September 4 at 06:27 PM, quoth Chris G:
> - reading/writing/moving/deleting messages is faster than opening
> an mbox, looking for the right message, editing it, then
> rewriting the whole mbox.
>
> >>
On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 01:15:16PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 12:14:41PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote:
> > > I'm probably older than most people on this list,
>
> You're not the only old-timer; though I don't like to think of myself
> as old, I've been programming computers s
On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 04:09:56PM -0400, Dave Dodge wrote:
> > anyway when does one want to edit messages, it's not something I've
> > ever wanted to do.
>
> I used to have the same opinion before I had a mailer that made it so
> easy. With mutt I do occasionally edit messages:
>
> - to use a
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On Friday, September 4 at 04:09 PM, quoth Dave Dodge:
> - to remove uneeded attachments when archiving a discussion thread.
>For example a co-worker produces some software my own project
>depends on, and has lately been mailing me prereleas
On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 06:27:09PM +0100, Chris G wrote:
> anyway when does one want to edit messages, it's not something I've
> ever wanted to do.
I used to have the same opinion before I had a mailer that made it so
easy. With mutt I do occasionally edit messages:
- to use a message in my in
On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 11:41:48AM -0700, George Davidovich wrote:
> The mbox format does have advantages but there can be as many
> disadvantages. The general consensus here seems to be to rely on mbox
> for archives and use maildir (by default) for everything else.
Well, I'm quite used to mbox
On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 01:15:16PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
> > > and I was never able to reproduce the nice, large, readable
> > > interface of a Windows console window with 10x18 Raster fonts in a
> > > 120x45 window, black letters on grey, in any xterm window, though
> > > I'm sure it could be
On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 02:07:50PM -0400, Thomas Baker wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 12:22:47PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote:
> > > I can move email files around just like any another
> > > data .doc or .xls files, and I can archive the email for a
> > > project together with all the other data files
On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 02:24:20PM -0400, Thomas Baker wrote:
> I have gotten (almost) this far two or three times before but
> never managed to find the manual or Web page that provides a
> list of possibilities or shows what the fonts look like.
There isn't one, but try:
$ xfontsel
It's a b
On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 12:14:41PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote:
> > I'm probably older than most people on this list, and I was
> > never able to reproduce the nice, large, readable interface of a
> > Windows console window with 10x18 Raster fonts in a 120x45
> > window, black letters on grey, in any x
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On Friday, September 4 at 06:27 PM, quoth Chris G:
- reading/writing/moving/deleting messages is faster than opening
an mbox, looking for the right message, editing it, then
rewriting the whole mbox.
>>> Possibly faster for a *
On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 12:14:41PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote:
> > I'm probably older than most people on this list,
You're not the only old-timer; though I don't like to think of myself
as old, I've been programming computers since 1983, and working with
them professionally since about 1994. There
On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 12:22:47PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote:
> > I can move email files around just like any another
> > data .doc or .xls files, and I can archive the email for a
> > project together with all the other data files.
>
> You might want to consider switching to Maildir.
>
> Maildir u
bill lam wrote:
On Thu, 03 Sep 2009, Patrick Gen-Paul wrote:
I'm pretty sure that a bit like mutt, gnu/screen supports piping its
commands to an external application, but I'm don't see at a glance
how this could be implemented.
You can use screen bindkey. Adding the following into ~/.screenrc
On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 12:08:45PM -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
> On Friday, September 4 at 05:32 PM, quoth Chris G:
> >> The advantages are:
> >>
> >> - reading/writing/moving/deleting messages is faster than opening an
> >> mbox, looking for the right message, editing it, then
> >> rewriting
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On Friday, September 4 at 05:32 PM, quoth Chris G:
>> The advantages are:
>>
>> - reading/writing/moving/deleting messages is faster than opening an
>> mbox, looking for the right message, editing it, then
>> rewriting the whole mbox.
>>
> Pos
On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 12:22:47PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 10:27:20PM -0400, Thomas Baker wrote:
> > If I am reading an important thread in mutt and need to put that
> > thread into my to-do list, I save it as a file, e.g.:
> >
> > 2009-09-03.mutt-rxvt-configuration.
On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 10:27:20PM -0400, Thomas Baker wrote:
> If I am reading an important thread in mutt and need to put that
> thread into my to-do list, I save it as a file, e.g.:
>
> 2009-09-03.mutt-rxvt-configuration.mbox
>
> I run a shell script to add a reference to that file to the
On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 09:42:02PM -0400, Thomas Baker wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 05:47:45PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
> > > I run mutt on Cygwin in a Windows console window
> >
> > Yuck. Why? :)
>
> Well I'm glad you asked that question... :-)
>
> > FWIW, you can run
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