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Re: change_folder_next patch



On Thursday, 03 May 2007 at 12:16, Alain Bench wrote:
> Hello Nick,
> 
>  On Monday, April 30, 2007 at 15:57:20 +0100, N.J. Mann wrote:
> 
> > I've left it bound to ',' for now, but...
> 
>     There is another argument against binding comma: Since ages, by
> default comma is not bound. This fact is well known by users, and they
> frequently use the comma for their custom binds. Either comma alone, or
> as prefix of multi-keys macros. As examples the ",@r13on" and ",@r13off"
> of the ROT13 decoder macro set adviced on the Mutt wiki. And many more
> such. This would not cooperate smoothly with a default bound comma.
> 
>     In my humble, <next-folder> is a "risky" function (deleted mails may
> get purged): It should not be bound by default to any single key, but to
> a key combination less prone to false moves. Humm... <Esc>m perhaps (can
> be typed <Alt>m on some terminals), with "m" as mailbox.
> 
> 
>     BTW, in Mutt's speak this function doesn't jump to the next
> _folder_, but to the next _mailbox_ (a folder declared in "mailboxes"
> list) with new mail. Nuance. Shouldn't it better read: <next-mailbox>
> "open next mailbox with new mail"?

Ok, I've unbound it and renamed it to next-unread-mailbox.

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