a bunch of newbie questions

2001-11-30 Thread Paul Brannan
fEnter /tmp/mutt* set comments=nb:> (stolen shamelessly from someone else's .vimrc). Is there anything else I should add? Thanks, Paul Brannan [EMAIL PROTECTED]

a couple more questions

2001-11-30 Thread Paul Brannan
1) How can I refresh the current inbox? The 'G' key seems to be POP-specific (I'm using IMAP). 2) Can I set up vim to place the cursor in the "To" field automatically when composing a message? Thanks again, Paul

Re: a bunch of newbie questions

2001-12-03 Thread Paul Brannan
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 08:59:24AM +0100, Sven Guckes wrote: > * Paul Brannan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011130 15:42]: > > 1) When I start mutt, I see this message: > > fcntl: No locks available (errno = 37) > >How can I make it go away? > > use the file

Re: a couple more questions -> sync-mailbox

2001-12-03 Thread Paul Brannan
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 09:08:02AM +0100, Sven Guckes wrote: > * Paul Brannan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011130 15:45]: > > 1) How can I refresh the current inbox? > > Use the command "sync-mailbox" - bound to '$' by default. > And please use '?&#x

Re: a couple more questions -> sync-mailbox

2001-12-03 Thread Paul Brannan
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 10:24:04AM -0500, Dan Boger wrote: > On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 10:19:33AM -0500, Paul Brannan wrote: > > Pressing '$' does not appear to have any effect. As a test, I: > > a) send a message to myself > > b) return to my INBOX (which res

Re: a bunch of newbie questions

2001-12-03 Thread Paul Brannan
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 10:31:53AM -0500, Brendan Cully wrote: > > > * Paul Brannan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011130 15:42]: > > > > 1) When I start mutt, I see this message: > > > > fcntl: No locks available (errno = 37) > > > >How can I ma

Re: a bunch of newbie questions

2001-12-03 Thread Paul Brannan
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 02:59:31PM -0500, David T-G wrote: > ...and then Paul Brannan said... > % This solves #2, but not #1 :( > > Interesting. What does > > mutt -v > > show you? Do you have dotlocking available? It looks to me as though > mutt can only use f

locking solved (was Re: a bunch of newbie questions)

2001-12-04 Thread Paul Brannan
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 08:30:27PM -0600, David wrote: > I think that this is exactly the problem... I dont know if you are on > linux, but in my mounts through NIS to an HPUX machine from linux, I use > a 'nolock' option that disables attempting to lock over NFS, and I just > use dotlocking. I d

Re: a bunch of newbie questions

2001-12-04 Thread Paul Brannan
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 02:59:31PM -0500, David T-G wrote: > ...and then Paul Brannan said... > % macro index $ ':set delete=ask-yes:set delete=no' > % > % All I get is a beep, and delete remains set to "ask-yes". > > That makes sense. Your macro set

highlighting unread messages in the index

2001-12-05 Thread Paul Brannan
In the index, unread messages show up as bold (bright white). When I select a message using the cursor, it shows up as a normal (light grey) foreground with a blue background. Unfortunately, this is the same color as a read message, so it is difficult to tell whether a message is new without mov

sync mailbox (was Re: a couple more questions)

2001-12-05 Thread Paul Brannan
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 10:31:54AM -0500, Paul Brannan wrote: > No, I'm not trying to delete the message. What I want to do is send a > message to myself and refresh the mailbox, so that I can see the message > in my mailbox before the next scheduled mail check. (In other words,

Re: highlighting unread messages in the index

2001-12-05 Thread Paul Brannan
PROTECTED]> - From: René Clerc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 21:38:11 +0100 To: Paul Brannan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: highlighting unread messages in the index User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i * Paul Brannan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [05-12-2001 21:24]: | On Wed,

Re: sync mailbox (was Re: a couple more questions)

2001-12-05 Thread Paul Brannan
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 09:40:36PM +0100, René Clerc wrote: > I'm not sure on this one, but what seemed to work for me, was trying > to move the indicator below the last message. This seemd to force a > check. But, again, I don't know this for sure... Hmm, that did not help. :) I think this has

Re: location of signature.

2002-09-06 Thread Paul Brannan
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 07:49:40PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Top posting sends the message "I am so much more important than all > several hundred of you others on this list that I don't care how much of > your time I waste." > > Bottom posting says "I respect the others on this list and

Re: top-post supports bad software (was: location of signature.)

2002-09-11 Thread Paul Brannan
On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 01:54:38PM +0200, Sven Guckes wrote: > > BTW, why did this post show up in my inbox rather than in my > > mutt folder? My procmailrc searches for "^TO.*mutt-users".. > > please explain why you use ".*" here. Because whoever's procmailrc I copied when I was first learning

mutt 1.4 not displaying headers or body in pager

2002-09-11 Thread Paul Brannan
I tried to upgrade from mutt 1.2.5 to 1.4 this morning, but when I started mutt after the upgrade, I could see the subjects all the emails in my inbox in the viewer, but when I try to view one of the emails, all I got was a blank page. Using 'e' to edit the email pulled the entire email correctly

Re: Update IMAP Immediately

2002-10-09 Thread Paul Brannan
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 09:02:18PM -0400, Kurt Lieber wrote: > On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 05:49:28PM -0700 or thereabouts, Jack Bates wrote: > > How can I force mutt to update my IMAP server - changing, for instance, > > the "new" flag - immediately, instead of waiting until I quit? Thanks, > > $,