Re: mutt/2018: virtual folders wanted
On Monday, 01 August 2005 at 17:26, Christoph Berg wrote:
> > Since mutt usually opens only one mailbox at a time, this feature is not
> > particularly suited to mutt, I suspect.
>
> I could imagine that opening 2 folders at a time could be useful, and
> maybe that generalizes to N folders. How hard that would be to
> implement in mutt is a different question...
It wouldn't be trivial. Mutt relies heavily on global variables to
manage state, and quite a bit of code touches the global open mailbox
pointer:
% grep Context *.c|wc -l
476