NAME

       mmsg — mblaze message argument syntax

DESCRIPTION

       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:

       ‘-’   refers to the message read directly from the standard input.

       ‘.’   refers  to  the  current message.  Additionally, the syntax ‘.+N’ and ‘.-N’ can be used to refer to
             messages relative to the current message.

       ‘+’   refers to the next message (like ‘.+1’)

       ‘.-’  refers to the previous message (like ‘.-1’)

       ‘$’   refers to the last message (like ‘-1’)

       ‘^’   refers to the current parent message (like ‘.^’)

       ‘=’   refers to the current thread (like ‘.=’)

       ‘_’   refers to the current subthread (like ‘._’)

SEE ALSO

       mblaze(7)

AUTHORS

       Leah Neukirchen <leah@vuxu.org>

Debian                                            July 3, 2020                                           MMSG(7)