17 Limiting Display

Another way to organize messages in a folder besides threading (see Threading) or using full-text indexed searches (see Searching) is by limiting the folder display to messages that are similar to the current message.

/ ?

Display cheat sheet for the commands of the current prefix in minibuffer (mh-prefix-help).

/ '

Limit to messages in the ‘tick’ sequence (mh-narrow-to-tick).

/ c

Limit to messages with the same ‘Cc:’ field (mh-narrow-to-cc).

/ m

Limit to messages with the same ‘From:’ field (mh-narrow-to-from).

/ g

Limit to range (mh-narrow-to-range).

/ s

Limit to messages with the same ‘Subject:’ field (mh-narrow-to-subject).

/ t

Limit to messages with the same ‘To:’ field (mh-narrow-to-to).

/ w

Remove last restriction (mh-widen).

All of the limiting commands above refine the display in some way.

The commands / c (mh-narrow-to-cc), / m (mh-narrow-to-from), / s (mh-narrow-to-subject), and / t (mh-narrow-to-to) restrict the display to messages matching the content of the respective field in the current message. However, you can give any of these a prefix argument to edit the pick expression used to narrow the view¹.

You can also limit the display to messages in the ‘tick’ sequence with the command / ' (mh-narrow-to-tick). See Sequences, for information on putting message into the ‘tick’ sequence. Use the / g (mh-narrow-to-range) command to limit the display to messages in a range (see Ranges).

Each limit can be undone in turn with the / w (mh-widen) command. Give this command a prefix argument to remove all limits.