Re: Undoing the 'l' command in mutt

[Bill Moseley <moseley@hank.org>]

On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 05:51:35PM -0700, William Ballard wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 08:57:33AM +1000, Colin Bell wrote:
> > I.E. just key l.<ENTER>
> 
> Strictly speaking '.' doesn't match ''.  Better use '.*' if you really 
> mean "everything."  Suppose your view displays only subject line, and 
> the subject is blank.

I belive the limit command defaults to the "simple_search" parameter if
you don't use any patterns, and the default simple_search searches the
From: address and the Subject:, so both would have to be null.

Regardless, it seems if a message has neither a From: or a Subject:
header "l." still selects it.  Even if I delete all headers and leave
just a \n at the start of the message (don't try that with mbox).

As does these:

   l!~s.
   l!~f.

So it looks like dot is special.

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Bill Moseley
moseley@hank.org