keyboard paste address in compose, To: line

2009-09-03 Thread brownh
Often, when composing a message, I want to past an address in the To: line without using my mouse. However, the usual C-y or C-v keyboard commands don't work. Any suggestions? If I may, a minor secondary question. When I type in an address on the To: line, the insertion point is not visible. Th

Re: keyboard paste address in compose, To: line

2009-09-03 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 01:19:43PM -0400, brownh wrote: > Often, when composing a message, I want to past an address in the To: > line without using my mouse. However, the usual C-y or C-v keyboard > commands don't work. Any suggestions? Entirely dependent on your terminal program, not Mutt. Mut

Selecting INBOX...gdbm fatal: lseek error

2009-09-03 Thread Tim Tebbit
Subject says it all. Debian Sid. I have purged and reinstalled everything except my .muttrc file, which works under Lenny and Squeeze. Any ideas? $ mutt -v Mutt 1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Copyright (C) 1996-2009 Michael R. Elkins and others. Mutt comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `mut

Re: keyboard paste address in compose, To: line

2009-09-03 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2009-09-03, brownh wrote: > Often, when composing a message, I want to past an address in the To: > line without using my mouse. However, the usual C-y or C-v keyboard > commands don't work. Any suggestions? Here's an idea. Mutt has a 'query_command' variable (see the mutt manual) that's in

S/MIME recipient address/key selection

2009-09-03 Thread Morris, Patrick
I've been wrestling with this for a while, and I'm finally at the point where I think I need help. I've got a working S/MIME setup with mutt, and everything's great except when it comes to selecting the right key to use when S/MIME kicks in. For example, I have two keys: one for patrick.mor...@hp

Re: keyboard paste address in compose, To: line

2009-09-03 Thread Patrick Gen-Paul
brownh wrote: Often, when composing a message, I want to past an address in the To: line without using my mouse. However, the usual C-y or C-v keyboard commands don't work. Any suggestions? What terminal are you running mutt in? How do you select the address you want to paste? Where are you

[solved] Re: Selecting INBOX...gdbm fatal: lseek error

2009-09-03 Thread Tim Tebbit
Tim Tebbit wrote: > set header_cache=~/.mutt/cache/headers > set message_cachedir=~/.mutt/cache/bodies > set certificate_file=~/.mutt/certificates After reviewing my post I saw this. And decided to try rm -r .mutt which worked like a charm. I still have no idea the why behind this. Could someone

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2009-09-03 Thread brownh
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Mail index page lines in X window (was Re: Associating..."mbox" in Firefox)

2009-09-03 Thread Thomas Baker
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 04:22:03PM -0400, Thomas Baker wrote: > So that when I clicked on a link such as: > > > Foobar > > > in Firefox, it would run mutt, opening

Re: keyboard paste address in compose, To: line

2009-09-03 Thread brownh
I'm running a rxvt-unicode terminal. In it (and in mutt), text selected with the mouse (and pointer location) shows up in reverse color. However, the only way I know how to mark, copy and paste is with the use of the mouse. Much of my work is with emacs, where selecting text, copying and pasting fr

Re: keyboard paste address in compose, To: line

2009-09-03 Thread Derek Martin
On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 01:19:43PM -0400, brownh wrote: > Often, when composing a message, I want to past an address in the To: > line without using my mouse. However, the usual C-y or C-v keyboard > commands don't work. Any suggestions? Under Unix, the pasting is possible, but I know of no way

Re: keyboard paste address in compose, To: line

2009-09-03 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2009-09-03, brownh wrote: > I'm running a rxvt-unicode terminal. In it (and in mutt), text > selected with the mouse (and pointer location) shows up in reverse > color. However, the only way I know how to mark, copy and paste is > with the use of the mouse. Much of my work is with emacs, where

Re: keyboard paste address in compose, To: line

2009-09-03 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2009-09-03, Derek Martin wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 01:19:43PM -0400, brownh wrote: > > Often, when composing a message, I want to past an address in the To: > > line without using my mouse. However, the usual C-y or C-v keyboard > > commands don't work. Any suggestions? > > Under U

Re: [solved] Re: Selecting INBOX...gdbm fatal: lseek error

2009-09-03 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Thursday, September 3 at 02:04 PM, quoth Tim Tebbit: >> set header_cache=~/.mutt/cache/headers >> set message_cachedir=~/.mutt/cache/bodies >> set certificate_file=~/.mutt/certificates > >After reviewing my post I saw this. And decided to try rm

Re: keyboard paste address in compose, To: line

2009-09-03 Thread Dave Dodge
On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 03:10:17PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > under X if you highlight it, it is automatically and immediately > copied to the clipboard. It's more complicated than that: http://www.jwz.org/oc/x-cut-and-paste.html Some of the newer applications, toolkits, and desktop managers

Re: keyboard paste address in compose, To: line

2009-09-03 Thread Chris G
On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 05:56:42PM -0400, Dave Dodge wrote: > On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 03:10:17PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > > under X if you highlight it, it is automatically and immediately > > copied to the clipboard. > > It's more complicated than that: > > http://www.jwz.org/oc/x-cut-and-

Re: Associating mutt/cygwin with MIME Type "mbox" in Firefox

2009-09-03 Thread George Davidovich
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 04:22:03PM -0400, Thomas Baker wrote: > I use mutt with Cygwin and Windows XP. Your problems are unrelated to mutt and would be more appropriate on the Cygwin mailing list and/or Firefox forums. But out of sympathy and because the underlying *nix/Windows questions tend not

Re: keyboard paste address in compose, To: line

2009-09-03 Thread Derek Martin
On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 01:42:32PM -0700, Gary Johnson wrote: > Man page: > > http://linux.die.net/man/1/xclip That's neat, but I don't really see how it's going to help here, given that the OP wants to paste an address. He'd have to have a way to output exactly the address he wants to stdou

Re: Mail index page lines in X window (was Re:

2009-09-03 Thread George Davidovich
On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 03:52:38PM -0400, Thomas Baker wrote: > On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 04:22:03PM -0400, Thomas Baker wrote: > > So that when I clicked on a link such as: > > > > > > Foobar > > ==

Re: keyboard paste address in compose, To: line

2009-09-03 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2009-09-03, Derek Martin wrote: > On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 01:42:32PM -0700, Gary Johnson wrote: > > Man page: > > > > http://linux.die.net/man/1/xclip > > That's neat, but I don't really see how it's going to help here, > given that the OP wants to paste an address. He'd have to have a w

Re: keyboard paste address in compose, To: line

2009-09-03 Thread Patrick Gen-Paul
Gary Johnson wrote: [..] That's true, and I use it frequently, but it will only copy and paste among windows running in that terminal. You can't, for example, use it to copy from Firefox and paste into mutt. But in this instance, you still have to use the mouse to select what you paste to t

Re: keyboard paste address in compose, To: line

2009-09-03 Thread Thomas Baker
On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 03:10:17PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > Note in particular that ctrl-x/c/v are primarily Windows keyboard > shortcuts, which a handful of platform-independent GUI programs have > copied. You should generally not expect they will work in a Unix > environment, though they som

Re: keyboard paste address in compose, To: line

2009-09-03 Thread Derek Martin
On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 06:26:50PM -0400, Thomas Baker wrote: > I run mutt on Cygwin in a Windows console window Yuck. Why? :) FWIW, you can run startx (in cygwin) and use a proper xterm, and save a lot of hastle. The windows console is next to useless to me, and I find the fonts are horrible

Re: keyboard paste address in compose, To: line

2009-09-03 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2009-09-03, Patrick Gen-Paul wrote: > Gary Johnson wrote: > > [..] > > >That's true, and I use it frequently, but it will only copy and > >paste among windows running in that terminal. You can't, for > >example, use it to copy from Firefox and paste into mutt. > > But in this instance, you

Re: keyboard paste address in compose, To: line

2009-09-03 Thread Patrick Gen-Paul
Gary Johnson wrote: On 2009-09-03, Patrick Gen-Paul wrote: Gary Johnson wrote: [..] Is their anyway I could copy something mutt+vim to the clipboard and retrieve it in Seamonkey via a Ctrl-V for instance? Ahem.. "there"..? maybe - I'll have to remember proofreading one's mail is not an o

Re: keyboard paste address in compose, To: line

2009-09-03 Thread bill lam
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, the xsel ser

Re: keyboard paste address in compose, To: line

2009-09-03 Thread Thomas Baker
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 startx (in cygwin) and use a proper > xterm, and save a lot of hastle. The wi

Re: Associating mutt/cygwin with MIME Type "mbox" in Firefox

2009-09-03 Thread Thomas Baker
On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 03:02:47PM -0700, George Davidovich wrote: > > I use mutt with Cygwin and Windows XP. > > Your problems are unrelated to mutt and would be more appropriate on the > Cygwin mailing list and/or Firefox forums. That did occur to me. >

The MBOX file paradigm

2009-09-03 Thread Thomas Baker
On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 03:02:47PM -0700, George Davidovich wrote: > > So that when I clicked on a link such as: > > > > > > Foobar > > > > > > in Firefox, it woul