On Monday, 09 April 2007 at 15:49, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > The trac system hasn't sent me a password to log in and submit a > bug, so I'm sending this to the list... This is an old bug, but sorry, looks like I broke that bit recently. I think I've fixed it, if you wouldn't mind trying to recreate your account. > since we're staring down the barrel of 1.6, I thought I'd bring it > up again. > > If you have some mailboxes defined, it makes it very difficult to > open mailboxes that have spaces in their names. Specifically, let's > say I have the following mailboxes: > > INBOX > other stuff > > And let's say I put into my muttrc: > > mailboxes INBOX > > If I then try to change into the other folder, like so: > > c=other stuff > > Then I'll get as far as this: > > c=other > > And then when I type in the space, mutt will assume I'm asking for > the next "mailbox" and will delete everything I've written so far. > > I think the solution to this is to make mutt a bit more state-full, > and only switch to the next "mailbox" if I haven't actually typed > anything yet. This might be ok, but I don't know how many people want the existing behaviour. We used to have a quote-next-char key (was it ^V?) for this situation. I can't figure out what happened to it.
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