mu4e manual section on how to read a message?

[Ryan Tate]

Hello, Does the manual ever explain the command for selecting an individual message and reading it? From *mu4e-headers* view, of course.

I have read the mu4e manual and am re-reading it and I have not seen this explained directly. I have looked for it most often in these sections here: http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e/Headers-view.html#Headers-view

I have intuited that one can hit Return to read a message, but is there any alternate way? Also, I’d be curious to read up on the particularities of this command. For example, is there any way to keep the cursor from jumping into *mu4e-view* frame when a message is selected for reading? Very annoying, especially if it’s the wrong message and I need to continue to traverse the message list.

[Titus von der Malsburg]

On 2014-03-31 Mon 22:32, Ryan Tate <ryan...@ryantate.com> wrote:
> I have intuited that one can hit Return to read a message, but is
> there any alternate way?

You can use C-h k RET to see what the return key is bound to in
header view.

RET (translated from <return>) runs the command
mu4e-headers-view-message, which is an interactive compiled Lisp
function in `mu4e-headers.el'.

It is bound to <mouse-2>, RET, <menu-bar> <headers> <view>.

(mu4e-headers-view-message)

View message at point.
If there's an existing window for the view, re-use that one. If
not, create a new one, depending on the value of
`mu4e-split-view': if it's a symbol `horizontal' or `vertical',
split the window accordingly; if it is nil, replace the current
window.


Titus

[Ken Mankoff]

On 2014-03-31 at 17:32, Ryan Tate wrote:
> For example, is there any way to keep the cursor from jumping into
> *mu4e-view* frame when a message is selected for reading? Very
> annoying, especially if it’s the wrong message and I need to continue
> to traverse the message list.

n and p still traverse messages from header view even when cursor is in
message view.

-k.