[Alpine-info] Two newbie-ish questions

Lucio Chiappetti lucio at lambrate.inaf.it
Wed Mar 23 12:38:46 PDT 2022


On Wed, 23 Mar 2022, Milt Epstein wrote:


> At one point I noticed I could use ^T ("To Fldrs") to go to my list of

> folders, go up to INBOX and select it, and then it would do the right

> thing.


Exactly, I'd always used that procedure (S then ^T them select INBOX in
Folder-Collection <Incoming-Folders>)

Not that I have to do it often. Usually I save FROM inbox to a project or
topic specific folder. Keep inbox rather empty. I do not need to save
"back" TO inbox, unless it is to recover some false positive from a spam
folder.

Then when I repeat a Save, it proposes me INBOX as default choice (or I
can navigate the history with up- or down-arrow (and the ^P ^N to
previous or next collection) and it works

The G (goto folder) also proposes INBOX, or one can use ^W.

I never TYPE the actual word INBOX, but I can access it satisfactoerily as
quick as I might desire.

Not sure whether that depends from my patched Alpine version, or from the
fact I have several Incoming-Folders, anyhow I'm happy with the behaviour.


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