[Gllug] mutt weirdness

[Tom Gilbert]

* Stig Brautaset (stigbrau at start.no) wrote:
> Hi list, 
> 
> I am having trouble with mutt again. I got tired of having to wait for
> so long for mutt to open one of my mailing list folders, so now I get
> my mail all in one inbox, and need to move it to different folders (this
> way I keep the level of mails in the inbox at an appropriate level).  I
> can do this with the save-hook commands, and I have even made myself a
> little macro to help me out (this tags the current thread and saves it
> to the folder specified by the save-hook commands, regardless of which
> message in the thread I am on):
> 
> macro index .           "^R^[t;s^M"
> macro pager .           "^R^[t;s^M"
> 
> (The ^R's and ^M's are created in vim by pressing (in input mode) C-v
> C-r and C-v RET respectively.) 
> 
> The problem is that this does only work in the index (the tag-prefix
> feature is apparently not available in the pager[1]), and I find it a
> bit awkward to have to go to pager mode to see what the thread is about,
> then to index to apply this macro, and back to pager mode for the next
> thread. 

Does it work if you prefix the macro with 'q' to exit the pager?
(untested).

Frankly I'd say you are going about fixing the original problem the
wrong way - if your individual mailing lists get too large to manage,
archive them. I archive all my list mail automatically monthly, and the
busy ones weekly. It's by far the more appropriate solution.

Tom.
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