Mutt: apply command to all tagged messages

From the mutt manual:

Once you have tagged the desired messages, you can use the tag-prefix operator, which is the ; (semicolon) key by default. When the tag-prefix operator is used, the next operation will be applied to all tagged messages if that operation can be used in that manner.

But it seems that I can only execute commands that are already bound to a specific keyboard shortcut. For example I can use ;d to delete all selected messages.

What if I want to apply an "unbound" command (such as purge-message)?

I have also tried using something based on :exec tag-prefix or :push tag-prefix without success.

1 Answer

My copy of mutt doesn't have a purge-message function, none of the unbound index functions look useful to use on tagged messages. But, for testing I removed the binding for the flag-message function.

With that done, either of the following commands worked for me.

:exec tag-prefix flag-message
:push <tag-prefix><flag-message>

My version is reported as Mutt 1.5.21 (2011-07-01)