Setting tab size in pager

2002-07-29 Thread Jim Osborn
How can I control the number of spaces a character uses when reading mail in the pager? Mutt 1.3.99i. TIA, Jim

Viewing both text and image

2002-07-15 Thread Jim Osborn
I'm on a list where most of the traffic consists of a paragraph or two of text and an accompanying chart as an image attachment. I really need to be able to see the image as I read the text, and it'd be nice to be able to do that within Mutt. I haven't figured out how to get the image to xv with

Re: bind ^H to backward-char in editor

2002-05-17 Thread Jim Osborn
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 10:23:38AM +0200, Wojciech Krygier wrote: > Just in case it might be helpful: "bind editor \ch backward-char" works > fine here, even without unbinding its previous action Hi Wojciech, Just so I understand a bit more, what action did your \ch key perform before you re-bo

Re: bind ^H to backward-char in editor

2002-05-14 Thread Jim Osborn
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 10:23:38AM +0200, Wojciech Krygier wrote: > Just in case it might be helpful: "bind editor \ch backward-char" works > fine here, even without unbinding its previous action, so it seems that > it isn't mutt fault. I would check the terminal definitions instead. Try > console

Re: bind ^H to backward-char in editor

2002-05-14 Thread Jim Osborn
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 07:27:43AM +0200, Nicolas Rachinsky wrote: > > modern keyboards and tty drivers easily can tell the two apart. > > > > That's not always true. Look at the output of "stty -a" if it contains > > something like "erase=^H" then your Backspacekey (if it's working) is > > produ

Re: bind ^H to backward-char in editor

2002-05-13 Thread Jim Osborn
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 04:55:32AM +0100, munk wrote: > What type of terminal/console are you using? Linux console, or more often, xterm. US keyboard map, pc101 keyboard. > If I understand you correctly, you mean that when you type something like: > > :set bleh= > > in the line editor in

Re: bind ^H to backward-char in editor

2002-05-13 Thread Jim Osborn
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 09:12:48PM -0600, Rob 'Feztaa' Park wrote: > What exactly are you referring to when you say ^H? The backspace key? Or > the actual ^H character? Sorry, that "^H" notation is an old Unix convention for Control-H--- the control key pressed simultaneously with the "h" key. I

Re: bind ^H to backward-char in editor

2002-05-13 Thread Jim Osborn
On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 07:24:57PM -0700, I wrote: > I want to use Control-H to move the cursor to the left in Mutt's > line editor, as I have it in all my other tools. The sole response I've had to this question was from someone who thought I was referring to the editor used to write the conten

bind ^H to backward-char in editor

2002-05-12 Thread Jim Osborn
I want to use Control-H to move the cursor to the left in Mutt's line editor, as I have it in all my other tools. Since the default action for ^H in the editor is backspace, I tried bind editor \ch noop bind editor \ch backward-char to no avail---still get backspace, not backward-char. Then I

Re: Editing a set of Subject lines

2002-01-23 Thread Jim Osborn
On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 06:44:20AM -0500, David T-G wrote: > I presume, then, that they can't thread properly, either. Hmmm. I > wonder what mailer such contributors are using... ;-) Not usually Mutt. :) Often the subject will be completely off, say the ever popular, "Re: blah blah Digest #58.

Re: Editing Subject lines of tagged msgs

2002-01-23 Thread Jim Osborn
On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 09:33:49AM -0600, Jeremy Blosser wrote: > Really though, this is probably something better done with a quick > shell script from the command line. Could you elaborate on this remark? Are you suggesting working entirely outside Mutt? Thanks again, Jim