Re: Mailbox directory with Mutt

["Michael P. Soulier" <msoulier@storm.ca>]

On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 12:11:28PM +0200, Francois Fayard wrote:

> Let me describe what I want:
>   All my mailboxes are under the directory /home/fayard/Mail/
>   When you type c, you have:
>     Open mailbox ('?' for list): ~/Mail/callig  (Your current mailbox)
>   And when you start to type a name, it changes into:
>     Open mailbox: d                         (if d is the first letter you have typed)
>   What I want is to type debian-user to switch to the /home/fayard/Mail/debian-user
>   mailbox, and I want automatic completion over all the mailboxes in /home/fayard/Mail/.
>   I'm quite sure I had that on an old distibution, and I can't find anything in the mutt
>   documentation.

    Don't start with 'd'. Start with '='. Hit '=d', and then Tab to complete. 

    This assumes that you've done a "set folder=/home/fayard/Mail" in your
.muttrc. 

    Mike

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