Re: suddenly unable to tag emails in a folder

Todd Zullinger <[email protected]> Mon, 8 Jun 2026 10:42:11 -0400
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Ranjan Maitra via Mutt-users wrote:
>> I am confused: I was going to tag all my unread emails in
>> a Maildir++ folder, and I try ";" which usually gets me
>> "tag-message" or something like that. However, I am
>> getting "No tagged messages" on this folder (at the
>> bottom).
>>=20
>> Exiting mutt and then coming back to the folder does not
>> appear to make a difference.
>>=20
>> Likely some setting has changed, but what and how do I
>> revert it back?
>>=20
>=20
> Actually, I am getting the same result on any of my
> Maildir++ folders (in mutt).=20
>=20
> I am very confused: I have not edited my configuration
> file (.muttrc) at all!

';' is bound to tag-prefix by default.  It's not what you'd
use to tag messages.  You should use t to tag a message or T
to tag messages by pattern.  After that you can apply some
function to those tagged messages via ';' and some other key
binding.

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Todd

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