Re: Mutt/Gnus hybrid for mail?

[Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>]

On Tuesday,  9 Dec 2014 at 07:49, Peter Davis wrote:
> Thanks very much for all the excellent suggestions. However, I think
> perhaps I need to clarify what I'm missing.
>
> 1) Deleting
>
> In mutt, when I'm looking at a message with what mutt calls the "index"
> at the top, and "pager" at the bottom, analagous to gnus' Summary and
> Article buffers, I can, with a single keystroke
>
> 1) move to and read the next message, or

N

> 2) move to and read the next unread message, or

n

> 3) delete the current message, and move to and read the next message.

E

These commands do exactly what you want, for me, when both summary and
article windows are displayed and summary window is selected.

> If I'm on the last message in the mutt index and I delete that, mutt
> simply closes the 'pager' view and just displays the index view for the
> whole screen.

In gnus, if you hit space or n to go to the next email, and if you
happen to be at the last message, gnus will prompt to go to the next
group if you hit the same key again.

>
> 2) Opening a group/mailbox
>
> In mutt, when I open a mailbox (group), I see an index of all the
> messages in the mailbox, with the cursor positioned at the first unread,
> if any. I like that,

gnus does exactly this for me.

> but I'd settle for seeing all of the threads
> containing any unread messages. As I understand it,
> gnus-fetch-old-headers is supposed to do that, but I haven't found a way
> to make it work, at least with Fastmail.fm IMAP.

nothing to do with the source of emails.  have you tried enabling the
gnus agent?

>
> For extra credit, in mutt's index (Summar) view, I can very easily
> filter the list of messages with a few keystrokes. For instance, if I
> type lpfd, I'll see just a list of messages whose headers contain
> "pfd". Of course, this is not especially useful in gnus since the
> Summary buffer doesn't show me a long list of earlier messages, but if I
> could make that happen, it would be very useful.

/spfd RET should do what you want.  You  may need to /o first.  then /w
to pop back to previous view.

maybe post your .gnus.el?

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