mh-e: Digests
6.4 Digests
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A digest is a message that contains other messages. Special MH-E
commands let you read digests conveniently. You can use <SPC> and <BS>
to page through the digest as if it were a normal message, but if you
wish to skip to the next message in the digest, use ‘D <SPC>’
(‘mh-page-digest’). To return to a previous message, use ‘D <BS>’
(‘mh-page-digest-backwards’).
Another handy command is ‘D b’ (‘mh-burst-digest’). This command
uses the MH command ‘burst’(1) to break out each message in the digest
into its own message. Using this command, you can quickly delete
unwanted messages, like this: Once the digest is split up, toggle out of
MH-Folder Show mode with ‘t’ (
Folders) so that the scan lines
Reading Mail::) to quickly delete messages that you don’t want to read
(based on the ‘Subject:’ header field). You can also burst the digest
to reply directly to the people who posted the messages in the digest.
One problem you may encounter is that the ‘From:’ header fields are
preceded with a ‘>’ so that your reply can’t create the ‘To:’ field
correctly. In this case, you must correct the ‘To:’ field yourself.
This is described later (Editing Drafts).
---------- Footnotes ----------
(1) See the section Bursting Messages
(http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/mh/burdig.html) in the MH book.
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