<article>
-<title>The Mutt E-Mail Client
-<author>by Michael Elkins <htmlurl url="mailto:me@cs.hmc.edu" name="<me@cs.hmc.edu>">
+<title>The Mutt-ng E-Mail Client
+<author>by Michael Elkins <htmlurl url="mailto:me@cs.hmc.edu" name="<me@cs.hmc.edu>"> and others.
<date>version @VERSION@
<abstract>
``All mail clients suck. This one just sucks less.'' -me, circa 1995
integrate all the Mutt patches that are floating around in the web, and to
add other new features. Features specific to Mutt-ng will be discussed in
an extra section. Don't be confused when most of the documentation talk about
-Mutt and not Mutt-ng, Mutt-ng contains all Mutt-ng features, plus many more.
+Mutt and not Mutt-ng, Mutt-ng contains all Mutt features, plus many more.
<sect1>Mutt-ng Home Page
<sect>Getting Started
<p>
-This section is intended as a brief overview of how to use Mutt. There are
-many other features which are described elsewhere in the manual. There
+This section is intended as a brief overview of how to use Mutt-ng. There are
+many other features which are described elsewhere in the manual.
+<--
+There
is even more information available in the Mutt FAQ and various web
pages. See the <htmlurl url="http://www.mutt.org/mutt/"
name="Mutt Page"> for more details.
+-->
The key bindings described in this section are the defaults as distributed.
Your local system administrator may have altered the defaults for your site.
You can always type ``?'' in any menu to display the current bindings.
-The first thing you need to do is invoke mutt, simply by typing mutt
+The first thing you need to do is invoke mutt-ng simply by typing muttng
at the command line. There are various command-line options, see
-either the mutt man page or the <ref id="commandline" name="reference">.
+either the muttng man page or the <ref id="commandline" name="reference">.
+
+If you have used mutt in the past the easiest thing to have a proper
+configuration file is to source ~/.muttrc in ~/.muttngrc.
<sect1>Moving Around in Menus
<p>
<sect1>Editing Input Fields<label id="editing">
<p>
-Mutt has a builtin line editor which is used as the primary way to input
+Mutt-ng has a builtin line editor which is used as the primary way to input
textual data such as email addresses or filenames. The keys used to move
around while editing are very similar to those of Emacs.
<p>
Similar to many other mail clients, there are two modes in which mail is
-read in Mutt. The first is the index of messages in the mailbox, which is
+read in Mutt-ng. The first is the index of messages in the mailbox, which is
called the ``index'' in Mutt. The second mode is the display of the
message contents. This is called the ``pager.''
<sect2>The Pager
<p>
-By default, Mutt uses its builtin pager to display the body of messages.
+By default, Mutt-ng uses its builtin pager to display the body of messages.
The pager is very similar to the Unix program <em/less/ though not nearly as
featureful.
one, it will accept and translate the ``standard'' nroff sequences for
bold and underline. These sequences are a series of either the letter,
backspace (^H), the letter again for bold or the letter, backspace,
-``_'' for denoting underline. Mutt will attempt to display these
+``_'' for denoting underline. Mutt-ng will attempt to display these
in bold and underline respectively if your terminal supports them. If
not, you can use the bold and underline <ref id="color" name="color">
objects to specify a color or mono attribute for them.
Additionally, the internal pager supports the ANSI escape sequences for
-character attributes. Mutt translates them into the correct color and
-character settings. The sequences Mutt supports are:
+character attributes. Mutt-ng translates them into the correct color and
+character settings. The sequences Mutt-ng supports are:
<p>
<tscreen><verb>
7 white
</verb></tscreen>
-Mutt uses these attributes for handling text/enriched messages, and they
+Mutt-ng uses these attributes for handling text/enriched messages, and they
can also be used by an external <ref id="auto_view" name="autoview">
script for highlighting purposes. <bf/Note:/ If you change the colors for your
display, for example by changing the color associated with color2 for
Asks for an external Unix command and executes it. The <ref
id="wait_key" name="$wait_key"> can be used to control
-whether Mutt will wait for a key to be pressed when the command returns
+whether Mutt-ng will wait for a key to be pressed when the command returns
(presumably to let the user read the output of the command), based on
the return status of the named command.
in greater detail in the next chapter <ref id="forwarding_mail"
name="``Forwarding and Bouncing Mail''">.
-Mutt will then enter the <em/compose/ menu and prompt you for the
+Mutt-ng will then enter the <em/compose/ menu and prompt you for the
recipients to place on the ``To:'' header field. Next, it will ask
you for the ``Subject:'' field for the message, providing a default if
you are replying to or forwarding a message. See also <ref id="askcc"