xmh Reference Guide

Table 1. Folder (menu of global commands)

Open Folder (accelerator: choose folder name with button 2)

View the selected folder

Open Folder In New Window

Open selected folder in new main window

Create Folder

Make a new folder

Delete Folder

Delete folder and any subfolders

Close Window

Close this main window

Table 2. Table of Contents (menu for handling viewed folder)

Incorporate New Mail, more... (accelerator: META-SHIFT-I)

Bring new mail into folder(s)

Commit Changes (accelerator: META-SHIFT-C)

Process all marked messages (delete, link, move)

Pack Folder (accelerator: META-SHIFT-P)

Renumber messages as 1, 2, ...

Sort Folder (accelerator: META-SHIFT-S)

Order messages by date sent

Rescan Folder (accelerator: META-SHIFT-R)

Force Table of Contents update

Table 3. Message (menu for handling current or selected message)

Compose, more...

Start a new message

View Next Message (accelerators: META-Space, META-N)

View just-selected or next message

View Previous (accelerator: META-P)

View just-selected or previous message

Delete (accelerator: META-D)

Mark message(s) for deletion

Move (accelerator: choose folder name with button 3)

Mark message(s) for moving to selected folder

Copy as Link (accelerator: META-C)

Mark message(s) for linking to selected folder

Unmark (accelerator: META-U)

Un-do the move, delete, and link mark on selected message(s)

View in New

Show message in separate view window

Reply, more... (accelerator: META-R)

Reply to message

Forward, more... (accelerator: META-F)

Forward copy of message(s)

Use as Composition

Open message (usually from drafts folder) in composition window

Print, more...

Print message(s)

Table 4. Sequence (menu for message sequences and searching)

Pick

Search for messages

Open Sequence, more...

View the selected sequence

Add to Sequence

Add selected messages to the selected sequence

Remove from Sequence

Remove selected messages from the selected sequence

Delete Sequence

Remove selected sequence (the list of message numbers, not the messages themselves).

Table 5. View (menu for handling viewed message)

Reply, more...

Reply to viewed message

Forward, more...

Forward copy of viewed message

Use as Composition

Open message (usually from drafts folder) in composition window

Edit Message

Edit viewed message

Save Message

Save message during Edit Message

Print, more...

Print viewed message

Table 6. Options (menu that may be longer some day)

Read in Reverse

Swap meaning of "next" and "previous" message

Table 7. Composition window (Buttonbox for handling drafts)

Close Window, more...

Close composition window

Send, more...

Send composition

New Headers

Replace composition with empty message

Compose Message

Open another composition window

Save Message

Save this composition

Insert

Insert copy of message being replied to

Table 8. xmh Text Editing Commands (Adapted from xmh(1) manual page)

CTRL-A

Beginning Of Line

CTRL-B

Backward Character

CTRL-D

Delete Next Character

CTRL-E

End Of Line

CTRL-F

Forward Character

CTRL-G

Multiply Reset

CTRL-H

Delete Previous Character

CTRL-J

Newline And Indent

CTRL-K

Kill To End Of Line

CTRL-L

Redraw Display

CTRL-M

Newline

CTRL-N

Next Line

CTRL-O

Newline And Backup

CTRL-P

Previous Line

CTRL-R

Search/Replace Backward

CTRL-S

Search/Replace Forward

CTRL-T

Transpose Characters

CTRL-U

Multiply by 4

CTRL-V

Next Page

CTRL-W

Kill Selection

CTRL-Y

Unkill

CTRL-Z

Scroll One Line Up

META-B

Backward Word

META-D

Delete Next Word

META-SHIFT-D

Kill Word

META-F

Forward Word

META-H

Delete Previous Word

META-SHIFT-H

Backward Kill Word

META-I

Insert File

META-K

Kill to End of Paragraph

META-Q

Form Paragraph

META-V

Previous Page

META-Y

Insert Current Selection

META-Z

Scroll One Line Down

META-<

Beginning of File

META->

End of File

META-[

Backward Paragraph

META-]

Forward Paragraph

META-Backspace

Delete Previous Word

META-SHIFT-Backspace

Kill Previous Word

META-Delete

Delete Previous Word

META-SHIFT-Delete

Kill Previous Word

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This file is from the third edition of the book MH & xmh: Email for Users & Programmers, ISBN 1-56592-093-7, by Jerry Peek. Copyright © 1991, 1992, 1995 by O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. This file is freely-available; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation. For more information, see the file copying.htm.