Re: [techtalk] Mutt functionality

2001-07-07 Thread Claudine
On Thursday, 05 July 2001, David Merrill wrote to techtalk, > > > 3. Can we cut and paste text within and between > > > emails with Mutt? > > You use your regular text editor, so you can do anything you would do > within it. Cutting & pasting between two emails is not made really > easy by mut

Re: Screen is your friend (was Re: [techtalk] Mutt functionality)

2001-07-07 Thread Andrew Wendt
On July 7, 2001 04:47, Telsa Gwynne wrote: > screen has to be one of the most underrated apps there is. So many > people don't know about it. I prefer it over kterm's tabbed terminal > windows and powershell (gnome-terminal-based similar idea) because > it is all keyboard-driven and you don't nee

Re: Screen is your friend (was Re: [techtalk] Mutt functionality)

2001-07-07 Thread Telsa Gwynne
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 11:15:46AM +1000 or thereabouts, Mary Gardiner wrote: > > A tailor made solution for this kind of thing is the 'screen' utility. screen has to be one of the most underrated apps there is. So many people don't know about it. I prefer it over kterm's tabbed terminal windows

Re: Screen is your friend (was Re: [techtalk] Mutt functionality)

2001-07-06 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 01:46:40PM +1000, Mary Gardiner wrote: > On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 09:42:07PM -0400, David Merrill wrote: > > Very cool. The kde virtual terminal (konsole?) allows something very > > similar, but the various terminals show as tabs on the bottom of the > > window. Quite slick.

Re: Screen is your friend (was Re: [techtalk] Mutt functionality)

2001-07-06 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 09:42:07PM -0400, David Merrill wrote: > Very cool. The kde virtual terminal (konsole?) allows something very > similar, but the various terminals show as tabs on the bottom of the > window. Quite slick. I use PWM as my window manager, which is very minimalist but allows m

Screen is your friend (was Re: [techtalk] Mutt functionality)

2001-07-06 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 11:27:53AM -0700, Akkana wrote: > I usually just run another copy of mutt in a different shell window. > Or if I'm not in X (running on the console or over a telnet line), > I ctrl-Z to suspend the mutt process, use more or vi or another mutt > or whatever is easiest to vie

Re: [techtalk] Mutt functionality

2001-07-06 Thread Akkana
Conor Daly writes: > > > 3. Can we cut and paste text within and between > > > emails with Mutt? > > > > Well, you can run two mutts open on different messages > > and cut and paste like that. > > This is the one thing that bothers me about mutt. I suppose I could have > vi shell out and star

Re: [techtalk] Mutt functionality

2001-07-06 Thread Conor Daly
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 09:33:24PM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, Telsa Gwynne thought: > On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 10:57:43AM -0700 or thereabouts, Michelle Dukich wrote: > > Searchable by the standard commandline tools > (grep thing Mail/receive*) or by a keybinding which is > usually

Re: [techtalk] Mutt functionality

2001-07-05 Thread Telsa Gwynne
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 10:57:43AM -0700 or thereabouts, Michelle Dukich wrote: > 1. We tried to use Mahogany and slurped all our old > emails over to it. It is COMPLETELY useless to search > for old messages by keyword which is a BIG need for > us. From what I have read in Sven's Man pages, it

Re: [techtalk] Mutt functionality

2001-07-05 Thread Arvid Warnecke
Hello Michelle, On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 10:57:43AM -0700, Michelle Dukich wrote: > 1. We tried to use Mahogany and slurped all our old > emails over to it. It is COMPLETELY useless to search > for old messages by keyword which is a BIG need for > us. From what I have read in Sven's Man pages,

Re: [techtalk] Mutt functionality

2001-07-05 Thread Steph Donovan
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 10:57:43AM -0700, Michelle Dukich wrote: > Hello all: > > Okay, a while back I asked for recommendations for an > email client for Linux and the overwhelming favorite > was Mutt. I am getting ready to download Mutt for my > friend and I who have a few serious issues we wa

[techtalk] Mutt functionality

2001-07-05 Thread Michelle Dukich
Hello all: Okay, a while back I asked for recommendations for an email client for Linux and the overwhelming favorite was Mutt. I am getting ready to download Mutt for my friend and I who have a few serious issues we want to address first. 1. We tried to use Mahogany and slurped all our old em