MMSG(7) Miscellaneous Information Manual MMSG(7)
NAME
mmsg — mblaze message argument syntax
DESCRIPTION
This document outlines the message syntax used by many of the utilities in the mblaze(7) message system.
In general, you can always specify a filename as a message, if it contains a ‘/’ character. (
Use ‘./’ to prefix messages in the current directory. ) You can also specify a maildir folder, which will be expanded to all messages in the cur/ directory.
Ranges have the format ‘start:stop’, where start and stop are one-based indexes into the sequence. Negative numbers count from the end. If start is the empty string, 1 will be used instead. If stop is the empty string, -1 will be used instead. Thus, ‘:’ represents the whole sequence. If the range does not contain a ‘:’, it is considered to be a single message, equivalent to the range ‘start:start’ of size one. The special notation ‘start:+n’, selects start and the next n messages.
If the sequence is threaded, the following syntax may be used: ‘msg=’ refers to the whole thread that contains msg. ‘msgˆ’ refers to the parent of the message msg and may be repeated to refer to grandparents. ‘msg_’ refers to the subthread headed by msg (
i.e. all messages below msg, with more indentation ).
The following special shortcuts may be used:
‘-’
refers to the message read directly from the standard input.
‘.’
refers to the current message. Additionally, the syntax ‘.+N’ and ‘.-N’ can be used to refer to messages relative to the current message.
‘+’
refers to the next message (
like ‘.+1’ )
‘.-’
refers to the previous message (
like ‘.-1’ )
‘$’
refers to the last message (
like ‘-1’ )
‘ˆ’
refers to the current parent message (
like ‘.ˆ’ )
‘=’
refers to the current thread (
like ‘.=’ )
‘_’
refers to the current subthread (
like ‘._’ )
SEE ALSO
mblaze(7)
AUTHORS
Leah Neukirchen <[email protected]> GNU July 3, 2020 MMSG(7)