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Re: Mutt as pop/imap checker



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On Friday, August 11 at 06:38 AM, quoth James Miller:
> Thanks for that tip, Kyle. A couple of clarifications:
> 1) can I assign only a single letter/character (as opposed to, say, 
> a word) to the macro?;

Nope, you can use multi-letter sequences. The only caution I would 
have there is that mutt uses timeouts to disambiguate between things 
that overlap. For example, if you use 'c' for changing mailboxes and 
then assign 'cI' to a macro, then when you press 'c' you have to wait 
a second or two before mutt will realize that you meant to change 
mailboxes and not trigger a macro. (Fairly obvious if you think about 
it.)

> 2) I must use only letters/characters not already assigned by the 
> program, correct?

Nope, you can assign anything you like to whatever you like (that's 
why, in macros, it's better to use a direct <function> call (e.g. 
'<change-mailboxes>') rather than a keypress (e.g. 'c').

If you wanted to, you could totally reassign all of mutt's keys so 
that it did things like behaved more like pine or vim or emacs.

> If so, where can I find a list of unassigned characters? Must this 
> be simply deduced from, say, looking at the help screen?

Yup, that's pretty much the most accurate reference you can look for.

~Kyle
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