Re: mutt/2430: mutt group aliases behave inconsistently
The following reply was made to PR mutt/2430; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Alain Bench <veronatif@xxxxxxx>
To: bug-any@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc:
Subject: Re: mutt/2430: mutt group aliases behave inconsistently
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 15:00:37 +0200 (CEST)
Hi Thomas,
On Monday, August 21, 2006 at 22:35:02 +0200, Thomas Roessler wrote:
> the "view full header" mode (right now, it only toggles header
> weeding) should be turned into a "view raw header" mode that turns off
> things like wrapping, and rewriting of addresses to display IDNs
> properly.
Hum... A no-wrap no-idn-decode no-rewrite mode would be interesting.
In fact even a full-raw mode would be interesting too ($pipe_decode=no
pipe-to-less does work, but outside of Mutt's pager, without its
coloring, <functions>, and mini-index).
But I question the mariage with $weed. After all users might want
weeded no-rewrite, and/or full-headers normal rewrite. Rewrite and IDN
are technically linked: What about extending $use_idn action?
OTOS if we push the reasoning, we'll end with 42 tons of
$display_weed, $display_header_sort, $display_header_wrap,
$display_decode_idn, $display_decode_rfc2047=ask-yes,
$display_nearly_raw_but_transcode_charset... Optionally linked with
<display-toggle-weed> or not. That might be pushing too far.
What about:
- $weed unchanged (weeding and sorting at once).
- $use_idn decodes IDN and rewrites addresses (with an explanation
about why those 2 are linked together, and visible consequences on <>,
"", (comments), addy (realname), syntax errors, and so on).
- A future $pager_decode boolean (=yes by default) permits full raw
display, similarly to $pipe_decode, $print_decode, $thorough_search, and
friends. Dealing with charsets needs some thinking.
- All this pager display-only. <edit-headers> and sent addresses are
always canonicalized.
MHO: $pager_decode is low priority (pipe-to-less exists). But I'm
all for a no-rewrite mode: I somewhat dislike when Mutt shows me
silently dumbed-down things, What You See Is Not What Is There. Given
the IDN frequency, I'd probably set $use_idn=no permanently in muttrc.
Bye! Alain.
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