[Techtalk] mutt and threads

[John Clarke]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 12:22:43 -0500, aec wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 05:50:28PM +1100, John Clarke wrote:
>  
> > Does this do what you want?:
> > 
> >      folder-hook . 'set collapse_unread=no; push \eV'
> 
> Nope, that dosent seem to do it either..

Hi Angelina,

It does for me what I think you want.  I might have misunderstood
though.  All threads which don't have unread messages are collapsed, but
those with at least one unread message are uncollapsed.  Is that what
you want?

> Many of the expanded threads are marked with an 'O' does that
> just mean "open"?

No, that means they're unread but old.  Add:

    set nomark_old

and you'll see 'N' instead of 'O' when you restart mutt.

> http://bzgirl.bzflag.org/pub/.muttrc.html 
> thats my muttrc as it is right now, maybe you can see something
> obvious that I am doing wrong.

Looks OK to me.  Try this:

    set sort=threads
    set collapse_unread=no
    push \eV

instead the two folder-hook entries, or combine them, like this:

    folder-hook . 'set sort=threads; set collapse_unread=no; push \eV'

Both work for me (Mutt 1.2.5.1i (2000-07-28)).


Cheers,

John
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