Re: Is merging threads possible?
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 12:21:33PM +0200, René Clerc wrote:
> * Chris G <cl@xxxxxxxx> [04-04-2007 11:43]:
>
> > On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 11:26:08AM +0200, René Clerc wrote:
> > > * Chris G <cl@xxxxxxxx> [04-04-2007 11:18]:
> > >
> > > > I often find threads get split (especially at work) and/or two threads
> > > > are actually about the same subject. Is it possible to merge threads
> > > > in mutt?
> > >
> > > It's called the linking of threads, and in mutt this is done by
> > > tagging the message, moving to the new parent, and (by default), press
> > > '&' to link the threads. In addition, a '#' (again, by default)
> > > breaks a thread at that point.
> > >
> > Thank you, is this a new facility in 1.5.x? I have a default Fedora
> > Core 6 installation with mutt 1.4.2.2i at present. I'm quite happy
> > (and able) to upgrade mutt and this might well give me a good excuse
> > to do it!
>
> The edit-thread patch was applied to the 1.5 branch a while a go. It
> is definately not present in an unpatched 1.4. You should indeed
> upgrade to a recent 1.5, I guess, since there has been much
> development and improvement lately.
>
All done, isn't building/installing on Linux easy! :-) (Previously
my work desktop machine was Solaris, much more pain!).
It's really a pity that mutt 'stable' is so old now, it's what gets
delivered on most distributions and means that people trying mutt
won't get to see all the new goodies.
I got 1.4.2.2 on the following:-
Slackware 11 (home machine)
Fedora Core 6 (work desktop machine)
... and 1.4.1i on a BSD machine (this one) which is my main mail
reading location.
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Chris Green