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Re: mutt/1649: mutt/1649: interactive :set mbox_type=<Tab> completion



On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 06:05:01AM +0200, Brendan Cully wrote:

>  > Hrm - this doesn't quite work as I'd expect....

>  > Hitting tab repeatedly doesn't seem to switch to the next type, and
>  > hitting "set mbox_type=m<tab> doesn't return a list of possible
>  > completions.
  
>  To be honest, it's not what I was expecting either. I usually use
>  set ?mbox_type<return>
>  to get that information, and don't see the point in having two ways of
>  doing it. But I'm just imitating what mutt was doing for every other
>  variable.
  
Right - that's how I've done it - I never even noticed that you could do
it this other way. But I guess that makes sense if it's the way
everything else works.

>  I agree that tab-completion/cycling would be nice. I guess you could
>  submit it as a change-request.

Yeah - I guess the trick here would be to make the behavior (relatively)
consistent, which might be hard.

w