more mutt stuff

[Janina Sajka]

Here's a brief excerpt from my current Mutt index screen. Sorry, the
editor is wrapping the lines though they're not wrapped on the index
screen itself:

   r    154 Telephony Voice User Interface Conference (  49) Jim Tobias 
fmt
        155 
*> ( 104) Jim Tobias fmt
        156 Mastering 88 Keys Con (Digital) Brio ( 193) Paula
Tucker fmt

Notice that this isn't the default index screen. I wanted status,
message number, then subject, in that order. So, I have the following in
my .muttrc:


set index_format = "%Z %4C %s %?M?(#%03M)&(%4l)? %F %{fmt}"

The blank subject part of #155 indicates that it's in the thread with
154. This is behavior you can change, though I don't recall how just
now.

Certainly, you can set mutt to not thread, which would probably do it
right there.

PS: My %[fmt] is clearly wrong. Guess I should fix it! <grin>

Deedra Waters writes:
> 
> The only thing that bugs me about not seeing  more of the subject lines
> is that a lot of messages look blank. For example the "logging in on
> multiple consoles thread" It makes it a lot harder to just skim threw
> messages that way. I liked the fact that pine showed me at least part of
> the subject line so I could just ignore the stuff I didn't want to read.