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After deleting or saving a message in pager view in the MUA mutt, the program remains in pager view and jumps to the next message in the current folder. Can this default behavior be changed so that after deleting or filing an email, the pager mode is exited and the folder index is displayed?

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You want to execute two functions (delete-message and exit) at once so you have to use a macro:

macro pager d '<delete-message><exit>'

This will bind d to delete the current message and exit the pager.

You can do the same for s but it gets a little bit more complicated as you need to have user input, if you just accept the default save location or use save-hooks you can simply use 

macro pager s '<save-message><enter><exit>'

If you want to alter the save location interactively I unfortunately don't have a tip how to change it, I'd try to use/leverage save-hooks

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I was not able to determine if there was a configuration option for these actions, but binding to a macro definitely works well. Please let me know if you figure out how to do key bindings that involve user interaction. Thanks for your help. – user001 Jul 30 '12 at 20:37
@user001 i don't know of such an option but you can have a look at mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-6.html which should cover all config options – Ulrich Dangel Jul 30 '12 at 20:41
Thanks -- I'm slowly making my way through the mutt documentation now. – user001 Jul 30 '12 at 20:53
Hello. I notice that sometimes, by default, I am returned to the index after deleting a message in pager view. As a result, the <exit> command in the macro definition causes exiting from mutt to the terminal. Is there a way to simple jump to index so that this unintentional behavior can be avoided? – user001 Jul 31 '12 at 2:05
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@user001 if you are on the last message and delete a message mutt will automatically exit the pager. And no you can't create/test for things in a macro (as far as i know) – Ulrich Dangel Jul 31 '12 at 2:40
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I solved it this way:

macro index d "s=Trash\n" "move message to trash"
macro pager d "C=Trash\n\n<exit><delete-message>" "move message to trash"

This also prevents to mark the next message as read

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