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mmsg — mblaze
message argument syntax
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.
‘msg^’ 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:
-’.’.+N’ and
‘.-N’ can be
used to refer to messages relative to the current message.+’.+1’).-’.-1’)$’-1’)^’.^’)=’.=’)_’._’)Leah Neukirchen <leah@vuxu.org>
| July 3, 2020 | Debian |