mutt questions

[Janina Sajka]

I'll try that q for quit.

Not elegant, but if it works ...


Steve Holmes writes:
> From: Steve Holmes <steve at holmesgrown.com>
> 
> I don't know the answer to #1 below, but for #2 let me tell you what I
> do.
> 
> I have emacs configured as my editor of choice so if I manage to get
> as far as typing a part of the message, I go ahead and exit out of
> emacs with the c-x c-c keys and it doesn't really matter if I answer
> yes or no to save the edited file.  I then am sitting at the mail menu
> screen where I would usually type 'y' to send the message; here to
> cancel, I just type 'q' instead.  I think if I remember right, I am
> asked if I want to postpone the thing and I usually say no to that
> one.  Now another point of cancelation, if I go into the editor and
> don't type anything at all and want to cancel out, merely dumping out
> of the editor results in no new file to send and I am immediately
> dumpped out of the mail composition screen.
> 
> Hope I got this all right.  I'm too lazy at this moment to cancel out
> of this one to be sure:).
> 
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 04:54:58PM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
> > I've been working in mutt recently. I have a few questions for which I have been unable to find answers in the documentation:
> > 
> > 1.)	Unsorting--or whatever it may be called--When I restrict my view using a semi-colon search, how do I undo it in order to return to the full
> > index listing? Ctrl-t doesn't do it. What does?
> > 
> > 2.)	If I start to compose a message, or start to forward one, how can I change my mind and abort the procedure? I find I'm unable to exit composing
> > a message. I am hacking around this problem by using capital P for postpone, but this surely isn't the proper way.
> > 
> > Thanks in advance.
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > 	
> > 				Janina Sajka, Director
> > 				Technology Research and Development
> > 				Governmental Relations Group
> > 				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
> > 
> > Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175
> > 
> > Chair, Accessibility SIG
> > Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
> > http://www.openebook.org
> > 
> >    Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.
> >    See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 
> -- 
> Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.
>    See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

-- 
	
				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

Chair, Accessibility SIG
Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
http://www.openebook.org

   Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.
   See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html