Re: change folder / quit behaviour

2013-02-16 Thread Michael Elkins
by the behaviour and don't know how to tackle the problem. Do you folks can please help me? macro browser c "" In the context of the browser, exit and quit do the same thing, which is to merely exit the file browser. What you need to do is first exit the browser, then the quit will be interpreted in the context of the index/pager, which will make mutt terminate.

change folder / quit behaviour

2013-02-16 Thread Franco
Hello folks using mutt, I have a small yet annoying problem regarding mutt. In my .muttrc file I have this line > macro pager c "?" "open a different folder" as I have many mailboxes, this macro allows me change folder when I am browsing some messages. Ok, not to the problem: let's say I pr

Re: messages marked D (delete) are not deleted if I quit mutt

2010-02-03 Thread Aleksey Tsalolikhin
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 05:50:49PM -0800, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: > Hi.  I find that messages marked D are not deleted when I quit mutt. > > I was running mutt 1.4.2.2 and just upgraded to 1.5.20 and still see > this behavior. > > They ARE deleted if I sync mailbox.  But if I

Re: messages marked D (delete) are not deleted if I quit mutt

2010-02-03 Thread Bob McClure Jr
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 05:50:49PM -0800, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: > Hi. I find that messages marked D are not deleted when I quit mutt. > > I was running mutt 1.4.2.2 and just upgraded to 1.5.20 and still see > this behavior. > > They ARE deleted if I sync mailbox. But i

messages marked D (delete) are not deleted if I quit mutt

2010-02-03 Thread Aleksey Tsalolikhin
Hi. I find that messages marked D are not deleted when I quit mutt. I was running mutt 1.4.2.2 and just upgraded to 1.5.20 and still see this behavior. They ARE deleted if I sync mailbox. But if I quit, they are not deleted. And I do have "set delete=yes" in my ~/.muttrc What&#

howto "quit if no mail" for -f pop...

2002-10-20 Thread John Haviland
The "mutt -z" (or Z) works in that mutt will exit immediately if there is no mail. However, if a "-f" option is passed specifying a pop server as the mailbox, in addition to "-z", mutt will assume a file type mailbox and quit indicating no mailbox file even though th

Re: ISO cancel option in quit prompt from send-message

2002-10-10 Thread Ken Weingold
On Wed, Oct 9, 2002, Gary Johnson wrote: > > Then why not put it in the Help line for newbies? > > For the same reason that it shouldn't be put in the help menu. The help > line is just a short form of the help menu. Yeah, but unlike the help menus, the $help line is present with all prompts i

Re: ISO cancel option in quit prompt from send-message

2002-10-09 Thread Gary Johnson
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 09:59:27PM -0400, Ken Weingold wrote: > On Tue, Oct 8, 2002, rex wrote: > > On Tue, 08 Oct 2002 at 06:10:11PM -0700, Michael Elkins wrote: > > > Technically, control-G is not a valid command in that context. It only > > > works inside of prompts, and there is no help menu

Re: ISO cancel option in quit prompt from send-message

2002-10-08 Thread Ken Weingold
On Tue, Oct 8, 2002, rex wrote: > On Tue, 08 Oct 2002 at 06:10:11PM -0700, Michael Elkins wrote: > > Technically, control-G is not a valid command in that context. It only > > works inside of prompts, and there is no help menu available when using > > the line-editor. It would be misleading to

Re: ISO cancel option in quit prompt from send-message

2002-10-08 Thread Erik Christiansen
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 09:06:54PM -0400, Rob Reid wrote: > > It's what the one true editor uses, but you're right, C-g should be a > hard-coded addition to the ? menu, right at the top. Ah, yes. Bells and chords. That's self-consistent for the editor. Finding ^C neither in the ? help, no

Re: ISO cancel option in quit prompt from send-message

2002-10-08 Thread Rob Reid
At 9:10 PM EDT on October 8 Michael Elkins sent off: > Rob Reid wrote: > > It's what the one true editor uses, but you're right, C-g should be a > > hard-coded addition to the ? menu, right at the top. > > Technically, control-G is not a valid command in that context. It only > works inside of

Re: ISO cancel option in quit prompt from send-message

2002-10-08 Thread rex
On Tue, 08 Oct 2002 at 06:10:11PM -0700, Michael Elkins wrote: > Rob Reid wrote: > > It's what the one true editor uses, but you're right, C-g should be a > > hard-coded addition to the ? menu, right at the top. > > Technically, control-G is not a valid command in that context. It only > works i

Re: ISO cancel option in quit prompt from send-message

2002-10-08 Thread Michael Elkins
Rob Reid wrote: > It's what the one true editor uses, but you're right, C-g should be a > hard-coded addition to the ? menu, right at the top. Technically, control-G is not a valid command in that context. It only works inside of prompts, and there is no help menu available when using the line-e

Re: ISO cancel option in quit prompt from send-message

2002-10-08 Thread Rob Reid
At 8:57 PM EDT on October 8 Erik Christiansen sent off: > On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 02:47:53PM -0500, David Champion wrote: > > > > Control-G cancels most prompted operations. > >With your pardon, I'll say that _doesn't_ ring a bell. > >Having tried the conventional escapes, including ^

Re: ISO cancel option in quit prompt from send-message

2002-10-08 Thread Erik Christiansen
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 02:47:53PM -0500, David Champion wrote: > > Control-G cancels most prompted operations. With your pardon, I'll say that _doesn't_ ring a bell. Having tried the conventional escapes, including ^C, ^D, and Esc, I'd surmised that mutt lacked the facility. Is th

Re: ISO cancel option in quit prompt from send-message

2002-10-08 Thread Patrick
* Richard Cattien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [10-08-02 15:59]: > > this may be offtopic, but how do you deal with mails which have no CR > after 7x letters, and you want to break it correctly? I know this is an > editor issue ...maybe someone knows if theres a trick in vim to do smth > like that? set w

Re: ISO cancel option in quit prompt from send-message

2002-10-08 Thread David Champion
* On 2002.10.08, in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, * "Richard Cattien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Control-G cancels most prompted operations. More precisely, ^G probably cancels all prompted operations. I just didn't want to make an assertion I hadn't proven. :) > Well, why the heck this is

Re: ISO cancel option in quit prompt from send-message

2002-10-08 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, * Richard Cattien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-10-08 22:56]: >> Control-G cancels most prompted operations. > >Well, why the heck this is not mentioned in the online help when >pressing ``?'' I was looking for this too but was afraid of asking :-) My guess is that the online help is automatically

Re: ISO cancel option in quit prompt from send-message

2002-10-08 Thread Ken Irving
> >unclear subject. Too often I accidentally hit 'q' after editing a > >message, and am presented with the choice to discard the message or not. > >Usually I want to select a third option, cancel the quit operation > >altogether, but instead have to carefully

Re: ISO cancel option in quit prompt from send-message

2002-10-08 Thread Richard Cattien
Hi, > Control-G cancels most prompted operations. Well, why the heck this is not mentioned in the online help when pressing ``?'' I was looking for this too but was afraid of asking :-) this may be offtopic, but how do you deal with mails which have no CR after 7x letters, and you want to break

Re: ISO cancel option in quit prompt from send-message

2002-10-08 Thread Thorsten Haude
t;Usually I want to select a third option, cancel the quit operation >altogether, but instead have to carefully _not_ discard the message, >then hit 'm' to see a prompt to revisit pending messages. Press Ctrl-g instead. Thorsten -- This is so cool I've to go to the bathroom. - Calvin

Re: ISO cancel option in quit prompt from send-message

2002-10-08 Thread John Iverson
want to select a third option, cancel the quit operation > altogether, but instead have to carefully _not_ discard the message, > then hit 'm' to see a prompt to revisit pending messages. Maybe Ctrl-G is what you're looking for? -- John

Re: ISO cancel option in quit prompt from send-message

2002-10-08 Thread Michael Elkins
Ken Irving wrote: > unclear subject. Too often I accidentally hit 'q' after editing a > message, and am presented with the choice to discard the message or not. > Usually I want to select a third option, cancel the quit operation Type control-G at that prompt, and Mutt will

Re: ISO cancel option in quit prompt from send-message

2002-10-08 Thread David Champion
am presented with the choice to discard the message or not. > Usually I want to select a third option, cancel the quit operation > altogether, but instead have to carefully _not_ discard the message, > then hit 'm' to see a prompt to revisit pending messages. Control-G cancels most pr

ISO cancel option in quit prompt from send-message

2002-10-08 Thread Ken Irving
Apologies for subscribing just to ask a question, and maybe for the unclear subject. Too often I accidentally hit 'q' after editing a message, and am presented with the choice to discard the message or not. Usually I want to select a third option, cancel the quit operation altog

Re: -quit

2001-03-06 Thread Horace G. Friend III
Thanks for the tip. -quit contained a vim buffer of a file that I was toying with earlier - the vim editing.txt. On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 01:08:47AM -0600, David Champion wrote: > On 2001.03.06, in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > "Horace G. Friend III" <[EMAIL

Re: -quit

2001-03-06 Thread Thomas Roessler
It shouldn't be there, I guess. But why don't you just look into it? On 2001-03-06 14:26:22 +0800, Horace G. Friend III wrote: > Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 14:26:22 +0800 > From: "Horace G. Friend III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Mutt Users' List"

-quit

2001-03-05 Thread Horace G. Friend III
Hi, I've got a -quit file in ~/.mutt directory. Can anyone tell me what this file is for? size - 37054 bytes ownership - me:me permission- 664 Just curious. :-) -- Horace G. Friend III [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP DH/DSS Key Fingerprint [Send email for public key.] 046A FAE0 1E45 FC3E

Re: quit problem

2000-08-18 Thread Kai Blin
Sitting at the campfire, Michael Soulier told: > Hey guys. At home on Debian 2.2, when I try to quit mutt, I get the > following: > > "(null): Bad address (errno = 14)" > > And it won't let me quit. This is if I hit the "q" at th

quit problem

2000-08-14 Thread Michael Soulier
Hey guys. At home on Debian 2.2, when I try to quit mutt, I get the following: "(null): Bad address (errno = 14)" And it won't let me quit. This is if I hit the "q" at the top level. If I Ctrl-C, then I can exit. Any ideas? Mike Mutt 1.2i

Re: new quit sequence

2000-05-17 Thread Mikko Hänninen
Jonathan Pennington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Wed, 17 May 2000: > Anyone know the sequence I'd use to build a macro to quit Mutt? I want > to use "q" to exit messages and return to the pager, but I don't want > to accidentally exit Mutt like I keep doing. I&

new quit sequence

2000-05-17 Thread Jonathan Pennington
Anyone know the sequence I'd use to build a macro to quit Mutt? I want to use "q" to exit messages and return to the pager, but I don't want to accidentally exit Mutt like I keep doing. I'd like to have a capital "Q" quit Mutt and purge all the deleted f

Re: macro for "quick quit"

2000-02-08 Thread Thomas Roessler
> macro generic \cq 'set delete=yes move=yes ; ' set delete move quit should do what he wants. -- http://www.guug.de/~roessler/

macro for "quick quit"

2000-02-08 Thread David T-G
Hi, folks -- My brother is starting to come around and says that he might consider using mutt (why does leading the unenlightened to the Divine One have to be so hard?? :-) but he wants a "quick quit" function which (IIUC) answers yes to all prompts and quits -- but which isn't l

Mutt won't quit without a valid `.' dir (was Re: Mutt "runs aways" when it loses tty)

1999-03-22 Thread Scott McDermott
directory mutt was started in (its `.') is removed whilst Mutt still lives, you cannot ever quit Mutt, it won't let you! I had to go in and step over the code that checks `.' in the running binary, in order to actually quit the program :) -- Scott