* Mun Johl <mun_johl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2004-07-05 10:20 -0700]: > > Hi, G'day, > On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 07:33 PM PDT, Brett Carrington wrote: > > ... Text Deleted ... > > BC> It's not really mutt's job to do that. You might look into using > BC> screen(1). > > I don't understand why it's not mutt's job. All I'm saying is that as > someone takes an action on an email (delete, apply label, etc), that > action be recorded in some file up until the next sync. That way if for > some reason mutt abnormally terminates before one can sync the mail > folder, one can re-start mutt with a recovery option and it would "play > back" the recovery file automatically; much the way vi does with it's -r > option. I don't know vi, so I don't know how it's -r option works, but if you're just saving keystrokes you could run into a problem if new mail arrives in the box before you recover, with it deleting the wrong messages, etc. > This type of feature would be very welcomed by me. But maybe I'm the > only one that has had mutt die on me in the middle of cleaning up a > folder after I've read through and marked and 10's or 100's of them for > deletion. Can't say it's happened to me. > I know: synch more often. But sometimes I get so involved in > reading/deleting I momentarily forget that I haven't sync'd in a while. > Again, this feature would add ease of mind knowing that sync'ing often > isn't necessarily required. You could make macros for common actions that sync as well, e.g., macro index d "<delete-message><sync-mailbox>" "delete message and sync" -- Joshua 'bruce' Crawford ... http://www.geocities.com/mortarn "When I examined myself and my methods of thought, I came to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge." -Albert Einstein
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