Tag Archives: mutt

Sorting in Mutt

April 14, 2008 – 1:21 pm

A couple of days ago I discovered the following mutt config option. set sort = threads set sort_aux = last-date-received This means you get the usual threading but that a thread is sorted by the date the last message in the thread was received. This keeps a thread which receives new mail at the bottom [...]

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Vim and spell checking

February 8, 2008 – 11:48 am

I just discovered Vim has spell checking. No more having to manually spell check in mutt with ispell when writing emails, Hurray!! In your .vimrc file simply add setlocal spell spelllang=en_au Note: By default vim only installs en_us spell files. If you are running debian then there is a vim-spellfiles package. There is an ubuntu [...]

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Out of the wilderness

July 17, 2007 – 11:05 am

I took another step out of the wilderness today… Those who have know me for a while will know that up until recently I exclusively used linux virtual consoles (ie what CTRL-ALT-F1 gives you from within X) to do all my work except for browsing the web. Recently I stopped using them all together and [...]

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