Customizing index

[Rui Pedro Mendes Salgueiro]

Hello.

I tried to google for this question (and I found the mutt FAQ) but
I was unable to find an answer.

I would like to customize the way messages are listed in a folder,
in particular, the way the Date is shown. For instance, one of my
folders has:

5 O Oct 02 News system (2,4K) news suck aioe.org
7 O Oct 02 News system (6,9K) news suck aioe.org
9 O Oct 01 News system (2,7K) news suck aioe.org

As you can see, only the month and day are shown. Neither the hour:minute
nor the year are show. Currently I am using a 135-column wide xterm, so
I would have space to show the full date. IIRC, other mail clients behave
differently depending if a message is recent (show only the hour:minute)
or old (show the date, but not the hour:minute).

I was expecting mutt to be configurable (maybe a format string
like many programs use) but I could not find such an option.
I suppose it can't be done ?

Another thing: I noticed that there are ways to use colours in the mutt
display (I found some examples of things like showing the messages from
a particular address in a different colour). But it seems that there is
not a default colour mode (say: show the messages in different colours,
depending on its flags (N, O, etc.)). Correct ?

Thanks in advance.

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[Helmut Springer]

Rui Pedro Mendes Salgueiro <r...@koala.mat.uc.pt> wrote:
> I tried to google for this question (and I found the mutt FAQ) but
> I was unable to find an answer.

man muttrc

See the sections on index_format and date_format.

You won't be able to have different settings by age though.

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[Rui Pedro Mendes Salgueiro]

Helmut Springer <delta+...@lug-s.org> wrote:
> Rui Pedro Mendes Salgueiro <r...@koala.mat.uc.pt> wrote:
> > I tried to google for this question (and I found the mutt FAQ) but
> > I was unable to find an answer.

> man muttrc

> See the sections on index_format and date_format.

> You won't be able to have different settings by age though.

Thanks, that was I was looking for.

[Christian Brabandt]

On 2009-10-02, Helmut Springer <delta+...@lug-s.org> wrote:
> See the sections on index_format and date_format.
>
> You won't be able to have different settings by age though.

Sure you can. The trick is to use a script. See MID
<4ab1055d$0$32675$9b4e...@newsspool2.arcor-online.net>� for an example.

regards,
Christian
�) The posting is in German, but the script should be understandable
anyhow.
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[Michael Wagner]

* 12.10.2009 Christian Brabandt <cb-...@256bit.org> wrote:
> On 2009-10-02, Helmut Springer <delta+...@lug-s.org> wrote:
>> See the sections on index_format and date_format.
>>
>> You won't be able to have different settings by age though.
>
>
> Sure you can. The trick is to use a script. See MID
><4ab1055d$0$32675$9b4e...@newsspool2.arcor-online.net>� for an example.

Hello Christian,

thank you for sharing this script. I adapted it to my needs and it works
like a charm.

Thx Michael

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