mmsg - mblaze message argument syntax


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 ‘’ )

=

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)


Updated 2024-01-29 - jenkler.se | uex.se