a few suggestions for the docu

2014-04-13 Thread Ulrich Lauther
Motivation: I have been using mutt for nearly 10 years, comming from unix-mail and elm under various operating systems. I have to admit, that I never read the 165 pages of the manual but relied on "man mutt" and "man muttrc", but first of all on the sample muttrc-file that comes with the distribu

Re: a few suggestions for the docu

2014-04-13 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Ulrich Lauther [04-13-14 08:43]: I believe your suggestions are very good and applicable and would enhance the docu... > 3. > > When writing this message I had a hard time to find the relevant parts > of the manual. > One would, e.g., expect a list of all variables in > http://mutt-ng.berlios

Re: a few suggestions for the docu

2014-04-13 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 13.04.14 14:42, Ulrich Lauther wrote: > BTW, in my current environment - Ubuntu 12.4 - pressing F1 does NOT > bring up the mutt-manual, but the manual of the gnome-termial in which > it is run. The mutt manual is a most worthwhile reference. If you haven't yet liberated F1 from GUI clutches, th

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2014-04-13 Thread Ulrich Lauther
On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 09:23:07AM -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > > So index_format is there, alternates not. > > > > If a complete list exists somewhere, I was not able to find it. > > If you would read the " > > see: 11. Alternative addresses > http://mutt-ng.berlios.de/manual/ch03s11.html

Re: a few suggestions for the docu

2014-04-13 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2014-04-13, Ulrich Lauther wrote: > BTW, in my current environment - Ubuntu 12.4 - pressing F1 does NOT > bring up the mutt-manual, but the manual of the gnome-termial in which > it is run. To work around this, you can execute :push where all those characters are typed literally, follow

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2014-04-13 Thread Ulrich Lauther
Again I hit "r" instead of "L", sorry So here again: - Forwarded message from Ulrich Lauther - On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 12:37:00PM -0700, Gary Johnson wrote: > On 2014-04-13, Ulrich Lauther wrote: > > > BTW, in my current environment - Ubuntu 12.4 - pressing F1 does NOT > > bring up the

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2014-04-13 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 13.04.14 22:00, Ulrich Lauther wrote: > Again I hit "r" instead of "L", sorry Ulrich, in the last two posts you are also somehow stripping the normal "In-Reply-To:" and "References:" headers, thus ripping those replies out of the thread. The subject line is also changed, thus defeating mutt's p