Re: mutt/2069: have extra function to change to mailboxes browser
The following reply was made to PR mutt/2069; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Rado S <rado@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: bug-any@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc:
Subject: Re: mutt/2069: have extra function to change to mailboxes browser
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 13:42:49 +0200
[=3D- Alain Bench wrote on Fri 16.Sep'05 at 1:35:01 +0200 -=3D]
> > When defining mailboxes it's hard for newbs to find them, because
> > "toggle-mailboxes" is hidden in browser mode and people are not awar=
e
> > of its own help screen.
> =20
> I believe that coding a <function> to do something already
> doable may be considered <rot13>oybng</>.
I'm sorry for not having spent more thoughts on this, I didn't
care as much about the implementation as for bringing attention to
this issue. I should have found the better solution myself.
Another solution would have been to move the functionality from
browser-mode (toggel-mailboxes) to index-mode (view-mailboxes),
but then again people would cry because of "things used to be that
way". :-/
I wish people would consider usablity improvements worth breaking
with (sometimes bad) heritage. ;)
> But what about adding a demo macro to /etc/Muttrc, doing
> <change-folder>?<toggle-mailboxes>, and bound to [y] (think mutt
> -y)? The same [y] key would exit from browser, giving a toggle
> effect convenient to quickly see where new mail arrived. A poor
> men's sidebar.
It's definitely an improvement, thank you for catching up me
lazyness!
--=20
=A9 Rado S. -- So much to do, but too little time to take care of it all.