Re: Emacs question

2002-08-13 Thread Andy Davidson
On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 09:35:49PM -0500, Bo Peng wrote: > I am in mal mode now. I can see --:** mutt-. (Mail Fill)--L9-All > but no color. Do I need to add something else to my .emacs? I'm really not the one to answer this --- you'll note that I was the one having problems :-) --- but I

Re: Emacs question

2002-08-13 Thread Andy Davidson
On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 08:38:47PM -0500, Bo Peng wrote: > I am just curious ... can I use color in the emacs mail mode? > I am using vim with mutt but I am considering emacs because of some clipboard > problem with vim. The mail-mode uses color --- Subject: is in red, the subject itself in gre

Re: Emacs question

2002-08-13 Thread Andy Davidson
On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 07:58:47PM -0400, Walt Mankowski wrote: > > That's pretty much what I have, and it works for me. The only thing I > can think of is that (auto-fill-mode) doesn't *turn on* auto fill > mode, it *toggles* auto fill mode. Maybe you have code elsewhere in > your .emacs file

Re: Emacs question

2002-08-13 Thread Andy Davidson
On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 03:33:51PM -0700, Sam Peterson wrote: > Does Emacs say anything when it starts up? Something to the effect of > "Symbol's value as function is void"? Nope. No error messages at all. > you might try putting "(interactive)" at the begining of your defun. > Something like

Emacs question

2002-08-13 Thread Andy Davidson
Yes, this is an Emacs question, but it is mutt related, so I thought I would ask it here. I found this at varous mutt places on the web and recently added the following to my .emacs profile and it sort-of works: (setq auto-mode-alist (append (list (cons "^\/tmp\/mutt" 'mail-mode))

Re: maildir over mbox?

2002-01-21 Thread Andy Davidson
r than the trailing slash, which I had. What I didn't have --- and thought I did --- was the set mbox_type="Maildir" in .muttrc Ooops! All is well now andy Andy Davidson --- Pheon Research If you know what you're doing, you're not learning anything.

Re: maildir over mbox?

2002-01-21 Thread Andy Davidson
At 04:50 AM 1/21/02 -0600, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > >Personally, I use maildir for all my 'active' mailboxes (read: the ones >that mail gets delivered to and I read) because it's that much safer, >easier and more efficient to alter, and roughly similar in speed to open. >I use mbox for my archiv

Re: maildir over mbox?

2002-01-20 Thread Andy Davidson
27;t *all* be using maildirs, can you? :-)] andy Andy Davidson --- Pheon Research If you know what you're doing, you're not learning anything.