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Re: change-folder bug with mailboxes & spaces



On 09-04-2007 15:54:32 -0700, Brendan Cully wrote:
> >  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.

I always use <esc><space> to get the space there.  Which once you know
it, is fine.



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Fabian Groffen
Gentoo on a different level