On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 10:46:58PM -0400, Mike M wrote:
| On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 02:35:32PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
| <snip>
| >
| > Alright, so I'll take a quick look through muttrc(5) for you ... ...
| > In your .muttrc put this line :
| > set mask=""
| > Now, in the *file browser* mutt won't hide dotfiles. (I suspect
| > that's what you are referring to above, the file browser) Note that
| > that affects the *file browser* only, not whether or not mutt is
| > capable of reading and writing and in general using the mail folder.
|
| That solves that mystery...and raises some new questions.
|
| 1. What the heck does this mean anyway: "!^\.[^.]"? (the default value
| of mask)
It means to hide all files whose name starts with a dot followed by a
non-dot. Therefore the following will be shown
..
blah
example.foo.bar
..yo
and the following will not be shown
.
.yo
.this-is-"hidden"
| 2. What's the alternative to the file browser?
1) mutt -f filename
2) List all mailboxes with the 'mailboxes' directive in your
.muttrc and run 'mutt -y' (I do this, for various reasons)
Note that you can use backticks to run a command (eg echo or
ls) in a subshell to dynamically compute the parameters
for the 'mailboxes' directive.
3) Type mailbox names at the prompt. (type 'c' then start typing
the mailbox name; begin with '=' if desired (means name is
relative to $folder) and use tab-completion)
To answer another question of yours :
(Hmmm. What does he mean by "never use mutt's visual navigation features"?)
I meant the file browser. However, I forgot what it was called
because I don't use it :-). I have all my normally used folders
listed with the 'mailboxes' command and I tend to use 'mutt -y' and
'c?<Tab>' a lot. When I save mail to some other mailbox (or go to the
junk mailbox) I use tab-completion at the prompt instead of the file
browser almost all of the time.
-D
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