Re: mutt tips

[Raghavendra Bhat <ragu@asianetonline.net>]

Alex Malinovich posts:

>> Any tips you might have for making life easier

Inside mutt when you press C-?, if you add this line in your .muttrc

# Mailboxes to check for presence of new mail
mailboxes `echo $HOME/Mail/Inbox*` `echo $HOME/Mail/list*` `echo $HOME/Mail/sent*`

you can see a N against mailboxes having new mail in them.  You can
highlight new mails in the mailboxes if you add

color index             brightyellow    black  "~N"        # new mesg

in your .muttrc.

If you are an Emacs user adding the following in your .emacs helps

(server-start)

Once you  start the  first emacs process,  all you  do is put  in your
~/.emacs file "(server-start)" and the  server is ON.  All clients can
connect.   For   subsequent  use,  (eg.  in   mailing/reply)  set  the
environment  variables $VISUAL and  $EDITOR to  "emacsclient".  Firing
emacs repeatedly sets off many instances  of full emacs and is not the
right thing  to do.  When  done in  a buffer type  C-x # to  quit that
buffer.  You can  put the $EDITOR directive in  your .muttrc too, like
set editor="emacsclient".

Good times.  
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