On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 05:17:09PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > Reposting to see if anyone has a suggestion how to make this easier: > > > On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 12:02:25PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > > Well, drag and drop would be nice once in a while. I needed to > > attach a bunch of images to a message in Mutt. Is there an easy way > > to deal with multiple attachments? Tagging doesn't seem available. As far as I can tell tagging in the attachment menu is possible, unless that's something patched in in the Debian build. It definitely appears to be working here. > > So I selected attach and made my way to the directory where the images > > were located. I could hit the <space> key and view the images > > one-by-one and then select it if I wanted to add it. Unfortunately, > > the image files are huge -- viewing a thumbnail would have made life > > easier. Can't think of any easy way to do that. It's probably easier to have an image viewer open in a separate window or on a different vt, then switch back to mutt to select the ones you want. > > The other pain is that mutt only shows the first X characters > > in the attachment list, and the paths were longer than that. So every > > file listed in the attachment window had the same text (the filename > > had been truncated). So I couldn't see what files I had already added. > > > > Any tricks to make something like this less painful? -Ben -- Termisoc Secretary: http://www.termisoc.org/ Home Page: http://benalee.co.uk/ "What does this tell me? That if Microsoft were the last software company left in the world, 13% of the US population would be scouring garage sales & Goodwill for old TRS-80s, CPM machines & Apple ]['s before they would buy Microsoft. That's not exactly a ringing endorsement." -Seen on Slashdot
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