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Re: Google Sent Mail

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 04:19:08PM -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
> On Friday, February 29 at 02:53 PM, quoth Chris Sussmann:
> > Mutt then replies that Mail is not a folder.  Now the macro works 
> > with Spam or Drafts because they don't have a space in the name of 
> > the folder.
> 
> It's a bug. One I've been pretty annoyed about in the past too, but 
> the mutt developers don't seem interested in changing mutt's behavior. 
> The space there triggers mutt to replace everything you've typed thus 
> far with the name of whatever mailboxes contain new email. There's no 
> way to turn this behavior off. I think mutt should only do that if 
> space is the *first* character that you type, but there's no way to 
> make it do that either.
> 
> The only workaround I've found is to use tab-completion to make mutt 
> insert the space for you. Assuming none of your other mailboxes begin 
> with "Sent", something like this would work:
> 
>      macro S index '<change-folder>=Sent<tab><enter>'
> 
> ~Kyle

Kyle-

This is the trick I needed.  This will work for me.  THANKS!  I now have
this in my .muttrc

macro index S "c=[Gmail]/Sent<tab>\n"
macro pager S "c=[Gmail]/Sent<tab>\n"

Again thanks...

Chris