Jay --
...and then Jay Moore said...
%
% I'm currently a pine user, but in the market for a new mailer... I
Glad to hear it (the latter, that is ;-)
By the way, I've seen floating around out there a list of keybindings for
PINE users, which might help your transition.
% think mutt may be the ticket, but I'd like to confirm something:
Happy to help.
%
% Currently (in pine) about 7 or 8 keystrokes are required for an
% operation I have to perform frequently (pipe, save, expunge). I'm
% pretty lazy, and damn slow so I'm interested in something like
% "Shift-F5" to take care of the whole sequence.
Sure.
%
% Is it possible to set something like this up in my .muttrc file (or
You can macro-ify in mutt anything you would type or do. What you can't
put in a macro is a lot of smarts.
If, for a given message (or messages), your procedure looks something
like
pipe through a specific command with no message-dependent args
save to a specific -- not message-dependent -- folder
expunge (called "sync" in mutt terms)
then you're in good shape. If, on the other hand, it's more like
pipe through command -d todays_date -i message_number ...
then a macro probably won't be able to help you there (but your script
could be rewritten or you could have multiple macros), and if it is in
fact something like
if ( condition ) pipe this way
else pipe that way
then you're almost certainly out of luck.
% otherwise)? If so, any pointers to get me started would be greatly
% appreciated.
Have you yet looked at the mutt manual? There's a section on macros that
would be helpful. In general, though, all you need to do is
macro <mutt_scope> keystrokes "command command ..."
where <mutt_scope> is the functional area where you want this to work
(could be "pager" or "index" or whatever or even "general").
%
% Thanks,
% Jay Moore
HTH & HAND & welcome
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