From 507a319c3af728c7cad6bc492cffa188fb8ad7bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ak1 Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 17:51:34 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Andreas Krennmair: added a few bits to the documentation. git-svn-id: svn://svn.berlios.de/mutt-ng/trunk@115 e385b8ad-14ed-0310-8656-cc95a2468c6d --- doc/manual.sgml.head | 96 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 62 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/manual.sgml.head b/doc/manual.sgml.head index 017dd5b..3681ac0 100644 --- a/doc/manual.sgml.head +++ b/doc/manual.sgml.head @@ -19,31 +19,37 @@ features like key bindings, keyboard macros, mail threading, regular expression searches and a powerful pattern matching language for selecting groups of messages. +

This documentation additionaly contains documentation to Mutt Home Page

+Mutt-ng Home Page +

+ + Mailing Lists

-To subscribe to one of the following mailing lists, send a message with the -word - -- low traffic list for announcements - -- help, bug reports and feature requests - -- development mailing list + -- This is where the mutt-ng user support happens. + -- The development mailing list for mutt-ng -Software Distribution Sites

+So far, there are no official releases of Mutt-ng, but you can download +daily snapshots from + + -USENET +Weblog

-See the newsgroup . +If you want to read fresh news about the latest development in Mutt-ng, and get informed +about stuff like interesting, Mutt-ng-related articles and packages for your favorite +distribution, you can read and/or subscribe to our +. Copyright

@@ -736,20 +748,20 @@ newsgroup entered instead loading from newsserver. Configuration

-While the default configuration (or ``preferences'') make Mutt -usable right out of the box, it is often desirable to tailor Mutt to -suit your own tastes. When Mutt is first invoked, it will attempt to -read the ``system'' configuration file (defaults set by your local -system administrator), unless the ``-n'' option is specified. This file is typically -/usr/local/share/mutt/Muttrc or /etc/Muttrc. Mutt -will next look for a file named .muttrc in your home -directory. If this file does not exist and your home directory has -a subdirectory named .mutt/muttrc. +While the default configuration (or ``preferences'') make Mutt usable right out +of the box, it is often desirable to tailor Mutt to suit your own tastes. When +Mutt is first invoked, it will attempt to read the ``system'' configuration +file (defaults set by your local system administrator), unless the ``-n'' option is specified. This file is +typically /usr/local/share/mutt/Muttrc or /etc/Muttrc, +Mutt-ng users will find this file in /usr/local/share/muttng/Muttrc or +/etc/Muttngrc. Mutt will next look for a file named .muttrc +in your home directory, Mutt-ng will look for .muttngrc. If this file +does not exist and your home directory has a subdirectory named .mutt/muttrc. -.muttrc is the file where you will usually place your to configure Mutt. +.muttrc (or .muttngrc for Mutt-ng) is the file where you will +usually place your to configure Mutt. In addition, mutt supports version specific configuration files that are parsed instead of the default files as explained above. For instance, if @@ -2164,17 +2176,17 @@ pattern is translated at the time the hook is declared, so the value of that is in effect at that time will be used. -Usind the sidebar

-The sidebar allows you to use a mailbox listing which looks very -similiar to the ones you can the in GUI mail clients. +The sidebar, a feature specific to Mutt-ng, allows you to use a mailbox listing +which looks very similar to the ones you probably know from GUI mail clients. The sidebar lists all specified mailboxes, shows the number in each and highlights the ones with new email -Use the following commands: +Use the following configuration commands: set sidebar_visible="yes" set sidebar_width=25 - + If you want to specify the mailboxes you can do so with: @@ -2183,12 +2195,12 @@ mailboxes INBOX \ MBOX1 \ MBOX2 \ ... - + You can also specify the colors for mailboxes with new mails by using: color sidebar_new red black - + The available functions are: @@ -2200,6 +2212,22 @@ sidebar-previous Hilights the previous mailbox sidebar-open Opens the currently hilighted mailbox +Reasonable key bindings look e.g. like this: + +bind index \Cp sidebar-prev +bind index \Cn sidebar-next +bind index \Cb sidebar-open +bind pager \Cp sidebar-prev +bind pager \Cn sidebar-next +bind pager \Cb sidebar-open + +macro index B ':toggle sidebar_visible^M' +macro pager B ':toggle sidebar_visible^M' + + +You can then go up and down by pressing Ctrl-P and Ctrl-N, and +switch on and off the sidebar simply by pressing 'B'. + External Address Queries

Mutt supports connecting to external directory databases such as LDAP, -- 2.20.1