Re: mutt's tag command - Was: Musings on debian-user list

[Rob Owens <rowens@ptd.net>]

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 04:53:39AM -0400, Chris Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 07:01:48PM EDT, Chris Jones wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:14:55AM EDT, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 06:47:55PM -0400, Chris Jones <cjns1989@gmail.com> was heard to say:
> > 
> > [..]
> > 
> > > > The only thing I find "frustrating" about mutt is that it is impossible
> > > > to view more than one message at a time - you actually have to fire up a
> > > > second instance of mutt to achieve this. 
> > > > 
> > > > What else?
> > > 
> > >   (1) mutt's support for cross-folder operations is fairly limited.
> > >       You can view multiple folders by running multiple mutts, but you
> > >       can't do operations that require accessing two at once, such as
> > >       cross-folder searches ("where did I put that email from John last
> > >       Tuesday?").
> > 
> > I tend to be over-organized - IOW, I spend/waste way too much time
> > organizing.. :-) so, this kind of thing practically never happens to me.
> 
> [..]
> 
> > CJ
> > 
> > 
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> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 08:42:07PM EDT, Rob Owens wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 07:01:48PM -0400, Chris Jones wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:14:55AM EDT, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 06:47:55PM -0400, Chris Jones <cjns1989@gmail.com> was heard to say:
> > > 
> > > >   (2) Since mutt runs its editor as an external program, there's no way
> > > >       to quote more messages than you started with.  If you get halfway
> > > >       through a long email and then realize you wanted to quote some
> > > >       other messages, you have to blow up the mail and restart
> > > >       (hopefully saving it somewhere) -- or of course copy the message
> > > >       in and quote it by hand.
> > > 
> > > True, you have to "tag" the messages first.. and then launch the editor
> > > on the messages' concatenation. 
> > > 
> > Could you give more details on how to do this?
> > 
> > -Rob
> > 
> > 
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> I did the above by:
> 
> 't'  →  tag my post + your reply - tagged messages are flagged with '*'
> ';'  →  tag prefix - apply next function to tagged messages
> 'L'  →  reply to list - editor is launched on concatenation of messages
> 
> Alt+'t' lets your tag an entire thread or sub-thread below the current
> cursor position.
> 
> Obviously, tagged messages can be processed by any valid mutt function
> such as 's' (save) which lets you _move_ (rather than save) messages or
> entire threads to other folders.
> 
> 't' and Alt-'t' really toggle the '*' flag so you need to hit 't' again
> to "untag" messages.
> 
> Shift+'t' or Ctrl+'t' let you tag messages that match a given pattern
> such as the sender, which is handy if you want to quickly move all my
> posts to /dev/null :-)
> 
Thanks!  I was familiar with tagging, but it never occured to me to use it
for replies.

-Rob