Re: change_folder_next patch
On 29-03-2007 16:03:15 -0700, Brendan Cully wrote:
> On Monday, 05 March 2007 at 13:43, Antoine Reilles wrote:
> > A patch to add a (change_folder_next) option to mutt was proposed long
> > time ago. It allow the change-folder command to start at the folder
> > after the current folder. The reason is that it may be annoying
> > that the 'c' (change-folder) command always starts from the first
> > folder in the mailboxes list.
>
> I'm not sure whether it's worth it, but I think if we want this, it
> might be nicer as a second command than a configuration
> variable. Perhaps <next-folder> ? It wouldn't even need to prompt.
I'm using the patch for a while now. It's slightly nicer than normal
(it avoids dangling back and forth), but if you want to make another
command for it, I'd suggest to just implement a scheme for that command
as follows. Make the next suggested folder be the folder that got the
next new email in time. Thus, if mail arrives in folder C, A and D (in
that order), then regardless whether new mail arrives in any of that
folders afterwards, mutt suggests you to cycle through it in order C, A,
D. This is what I usually want, but requires state to be kept.
I assume that the current way of doing it is just looking for folders
with a flag of having new mail or not, and the change_folder_next patch
just changes the starting point of that search, which to me indeed is
best done with an option.
My 0.02 e :)