I read through the Mutt help file this morning. Lots of stuff I didn’t know about. (I can’t believe I’ve waited this long to learn how to use message tagging.) I love the vi keybindings. (‘j’ and ‘k’ for scrolling, ‘G’ to move to the bottom of the current message, etc.) I wish there was some way to use ‘G’ in the index to jump to the end of the message list… Mutt is very cool, though. I didn’t realize there were functions and macros and all that.

Well, I decided to add vi-style keybindings to Mozilla (I was in that sort of mood), so they’re now on the Linux page. I want to find out how to modify Lynx’s keybindings as well. Oh, a guy on the UUG list gave me an example of how to get Mutt to scroll to the bottom of the message list with ‘G’: ‘bind index G last-entry’. Cool.

I’m installing Gentoo right now. Sure takes a while to compile. (I have a 500 MHz Pentium II with 256 megs of RAM.)

Gentoo tip: make very sure that you compile your kernel with devfs support included, since there’s no way (that I could find) to fix it if you forget (short of reinstalling). I’m putting Red Hat 7.3 on my work machine instead of Gentoo, primarily because it’s a clone of another server and that server is running Red Hat. (The other reason is that it’s taking too much time to compile everything on Gentoo.) Gentoo is very cool — make no mistake about that. Portage simply rocks and the boot time is amazingly fast. It’s my kind of distribution. I’ll probably run it on my laptop after my mission.

I wrote the Help! article on how to survive in the Linux world (getting help and finding answers).