Re: more mutt questions
On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 09:58:11PM -0000, Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
> On 2004-04-26, David penned:
> > On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 06:35:02PM -0000, Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
> >> Me, I create a symbolic link called "inbox"
> >>
> >> ln -s /var/spool/mail/monique /home/monique/mail/inbox
> >> 'c' '=inbox'
> >
> > Do you need to do this? My mutt identifies my /var/{,spool/}mail as
> > '!'. All I have to do is 'c' '!' - I don't think did anything to get
> > it to do that - IIRC, it came that way.
>
> No, I don't need to do this; your method works. I didn't know about '!'
> when I set this up, and now 'c=inbox' is hardcoded into my fingertips.
>
> I could make up some story about how I don't like having to reach for
> the '!' or something, but the truth is it's just habit based on
> ignorance =)
Well.. actually, it's more a case of there being _so_ much to know that
it's hard to be able to grasp every detail. I may have just stumbled
across this in the docs accidentally - although it _seems_ that perhaps
I did strike out on a search for this particular thing to start with.
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