[Alpine-info] Two newbie-ish questions

[Hisashi T Fujinaka]

Well, I have a workaround (just remember to type in /var/mail/$USERNAME
when I'm moving to inbox) but I still wonder if there's a setting
"visit" every folder with tab.

On Wed, 23 Mar 2022, Lucio Chiappetti wrote:


> 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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