Re: limiting index by author

On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 the mental interface of
Christian Brabandt told:

> Hi,
> I am using muttng now for quite some time. Every once in a while I am
> using the limit function to get messages from a particular author. Until
> now I did the following: 
> 
> 1. selected the message
> 2. opened it in the pager
> 3. selected the author with the mouse
> 4. exiting the message
> 5. typing l and '~f' followed by pasting the author with the mouse
> 
> Now as this behavior is rather awkward I was wondering if it 
> is possible to do something like: 
> 
> 1. select the message in the index 
> 2. typing just any keystroke that would automatically extract the senders
> email address and use this address for limiting using the pattern '~f'
> 
> Is there a way to get this behavior via some bind function?

macro pager A |'~/.mutt/mail2muttalias.py ~/.mutt/muttrc.aliases'\n:"source 
~/.mutt/muttrc.aliases\n"
macro index A |'~/.mutt/mail2muttalias.py ~/.mutt/muttrc.aliases'\n:"source 
~/.mutt/muttrc.aliases\n"

mail2muttalias.py can be found at
http://pyropus.ca/software/mail2muttalias/mail2muttalias.py
written by the author of getmail ;-)

Elimar

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