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Re: mutt/2142: <untag-pattern> with empty argument does nothing



The following reply was made to PR mutt/2142; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: TAKAHASHI Tamotsu <ttakah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: bug-any@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Subject: Re: mutt/2142: <untag-pattern> with empty argument does nothing
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 14:12:08 +0900

 * Thu Nov 24 2005 Vincent Lefevre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx>
 >  On 2005-11-24 00:15:01 +0100, TAKAHASHI Tamotsu wrote:
 >  >  So, <limit> with an empty argument should not show all messages
 >  >  if you mind the inconsistency. I thought the current behavior was
 >  >  intuitive for beginners, and my patch was applied at revision
 >  >  3.15 in pattern.c. See bug#1854.
 >  
 >  Bug#1854 says "'l' and then Enter", but this doesn't even work
 >  since the latest pattern is recalled. So, before Enter, either
 >  "." or "<kill-line>" is necessary. And I don't find the current
 >  behavior intuitive.
 
 Me, too. Now I am too familiar with mutt's UI to like
 the current behaviour.
 
 
 >  behavior intuitive. Instead, I'd rather see some help, e.g. the
 >  current value of $simple_search, or more useful, if a help screen
 >  for patterns is designed:
 >  
 >    Type ... to see the help on patterns.
 >  
 >  This would be very useful, as pattern formats are difficult to
 >  remember (in particular for those one almost never uses).
 
 Bug #2076 has my patch to show you a list of patterns when
 you push tab (<complete> function) after "~".
 
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 tamo