Re: To mbox or not, that is the question! (fwd)
On April 27, 2004 10:46 pm, 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)
Hrm.. That's a posix regular expression.
! = not
^ = beginning of pattern
\. - an escaped period
to explain the rest, well... a [] surrounds a character set. a
[^] means it's the inverse character set. so [^.] means a character which
is not a period. I wonder if there is a simpler way to say that...
> 2. What's the alternative to the file browser?
>
> --
> Mike
>
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