Re: why not start a mutt profile generator project?
>As long as manual.txt is formatted consistently enough, it would be
> great to have a curses-based configuration tool that just parses it
> and presents a menu of options to change that reflects the structure
> of the manual. Each option would of course then have the relevant help
> available.
This is exactly what I am thinking about.
> What would be really great as well would be a kind of "make oldconfig"
> equivalent where just new options are displayed after upgrading.
I believe mutt config shoud draw heavily on the ideas of kernel config. I run
menuconfig, I read explanation of every options and I finally come up with a
config that is tailed for my needs. If I am lazy I can just run make defconf
to get a auto-generated config file with default options. How great that
would be if mutt could do the same!
> Certainly a curses configuration tool is going to be what newbies turn
> to first, and then there's no excuse not to RTFM as it is TFM!
I can't agree more with this. If there is such a tool, I believe quite a lot
of questions in this mailing list will be gone.
> Regards,
> James.
Correctly me if I am wrong, I think end users shouldn't waste time to learn
numerous options just to get a mail client running! As the function of kernel
is in the using, so should be mutt.
You may ask why not do it yourself after all this advocacy? Right now I have
no ability to do such a job but I believe this is the right way. If someone
start this project I will contribute what I can. Translate some material for
instance.
ideas and criticism?
amoyamour