Re: Moving folders between collections in Pine :-)

On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 07:27:17 +0100, NM Public wrote:

>> Good news for once, or at least I think so. With a chance to
>> take a deep breath or two, I found a (perhaps kludgy) way to
>> move whole folders between one of Pine's folder collections
>> and another.
>>
>> I simply opened one, which I had inadvertently let get added
>> to a collection where it didn't belong; selected all the
>> messages; told it Apply, then Save; and hit ^N till I got to
>> the collection where it belonged. Then I typed the name of the
>> folder [...]
> 
> Excellent! It's not a kludge at all and I've written about the 
> exact procedure you did on my Power Pine page in this section:
> 
>  Using Aggregate Operations to Select and Move Messages in a 
> Mailbox
>  <http://www.ii.com/internet/messaging/pine/pc/#mvAggregate>

Hear me, I gloat!

> Here's a tip: If you are moving messages to a mailbox that 
> already exists, you can save yourself typing the target mailbox 
> name (and possibly MIStyping it), by setting this Pine feature:
> 
>   [X]  enable-tab-completion
> 
> Then after you type '; A A S ^N' (Select > All > Apply > Save > 
> NextCollection), just type the first couple characters of the 
> the target mailbox's name and press TAB to complete the name.
> 
> Hope that's useful!

Would you believe I already had it set, and never thought to use it? Many
thanks!

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