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Re: purge deleted messages in mutt?



On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 09:13:09AM -0700, moseley@hank.org wrote:
> On Sun, May 04, 2003 at 09:55:05PM -0400, Seneca wrote:
> > On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 11:00:39AM +0930, David Purton wrote:
> > > Is there a way or macro to purge messages flagged for deletion in mutt
> > > without closing and reopening a folder?
> > 
> > Press '$' (save changes to mailbox)
> 
> On my machine if I hit ctrl-$ by mistake when trying to hit shift-$ Mutt 
> just aborts or exits without updating.  Kind of a pain if I just went 
> through a day's worth of debian-user flagging what should be deleted!
> 
> I have not found how that key is bound.  Be nice to disable it.

You can change key bindings in ~/.muttrc.  Take a look at sections 3.3
and 6.4 in mutt's manual.  If, for instance, you want '$' to be search
and '/' to save changes (in the index), you would add:

  bind index \044 search
  bind index \057 sync-mailbox

-- 
Seneca
seneca-cunningham@rogers.com

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