Re: [vox] Re: [vox][ot] Why threaded mailer (Was posting etiquette on vox-tech)

[Peter Jay Salzman <p@dirMAPSac.org>]

mark,

there was a pretty long mutt thread about ... 2 months?  3 months? ago.

the key to getting comfortable with mutt is choosing the key bindings
that work with you.  most of us are pine converts (and a few are elm
converts).

therefore, the key to mutt success is getting someone's .muttrc file.
later on, when you get comfortable, you can start modifying it to your
own tastes.

i believe that bill, henry, me and a few other people posted our .muttrc
files.  it should be in the archive.

i have all my keybindings set up to mimic pine and lynx.  i can send you
my .muttrc file if you can't find it on the archives (or just want me to
send it).

pete

begin Mark K. Kim <markslist@cbreak.org> 
> Moved to vox for obvious reasons.
> 
> Is there a quickstart guide to Mutt?  I tried it a couple times and
> realized I can't even find a key stroke to look at my other folders.
> 
> I don't use threaded mailer (PINE) but it's still good to conform to
> threading because... it's like those pesky spaces and tabs at the end of
> lines you can't see in source codes but you know they're there and they
> bug you so much...
> 
> -Mark (s/[^I ]*$//)
> 
> 
> On Wed, 22 May 2002, nbs wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 10:53:29PM -0700, Steven Peck wrote:
> > >
> > > Hmmmm.....
> > > [1] Never understood tracking messages by threading, tried it long ago
> > > and hated it, so I was unaware of the side effect :) and welll.......
> > > I'll try to remember, but I'm an old dog.
> >
> > Well, when I see something like this:
> >
> >    [vox] Help, my winmodem doesn't work
> >
> > followed by 2 dozen followups, since I don't care about or use even
> > NON-Win modems, I can easily delete the entire thread by hitting [Esc] [D]
> >
> >
> > Switching to a threaded mail client (in my case, switching from elm to mutt)
> > has helped TREMENDOUSLY.  I can keep track of ancient correspondences
> > in my "lugod" folder, clip and trim and skim through the countless mailing
> > lists I'm subscribed to, and so forth.
> >
> >
> > > [2] Doh!  Wrong folder! :/
> >
> > :)
> >
> > -bill!
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