Re: problem tagging collapsed messages
* On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 Javier Rojas (jerojasro@xxxxxxxxx) muttered:
> Mutt doesn't seem to tag messages which are collapsed. I have a macro
> that marks all the unread messages as read, and now that I'm collapsing
> certain mailboxes, Mutt doesn't tag all the new messages.
Correct. Mutt always work on *visible* messages *only*. You'd have
un-collapse all before doing whatever you're about to do.
> The tag-thread feature (the killer feature of 1.5.13: ~() ) doesn't have
> a consistent behaviour too; tagging al threads with new messages on them
> (~(~N)) tags only the first message of the thread.
ITYM of a collapsed thread. ~(~N) works fine here on un-collapsed
threads. Again mutt only works on visible messages. When you're about to
work on all messages, you have to un-collapse all.
Say you limited to ~N then <delete-pattern>~f foo. Now there may be a lot
of messages that are ~f foo but not ~N only you don't see them now.
Should mutt delete them? I don't think so. You wouldn't even notice that
mutt matched and deleted those messages because you don't see them.
-> Prone to unwanted mail loss.
The some goes for matching messages in collapsed threads.
HTH,
Michael
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