On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 05:21:56PM +1100, Philip Rhoades wrote: > People, > > When I attach files it would be nice to navigate to the file for > attachment by sorting the display so that the directories were sorted to > the top - but this does not seem possible? [ie it looks like only: > (d)ate, (a)lpha, si(z)e or do(n)'t]. Yeah that's right... Ideally I'd really like the mailbox browser and the filesystem browser to be treated as two different screens which behave differently. I think most of the time, most people would want the mail folders presented in the order they were specified (i.e. unsorted) as presumably the user will want Mutt to check for new mail in the order in which they've specified the mailboxes (presumably most important to least important), whereas for files in the filesystem, generally people will want to see first directories, then regular files, with possibly "hidden" files (those whose names begin with a '.' after other regular files, if at all, with each category sorted in alphabetical order. Currently only alphabetic order (controlled by your $LANG and other locale settings) is supported, without sorting into subcategories. Mailboxes can be sorted or unsorted, but since there's no current way in Mutt to distinguish between these two conceptually very different ways of selecting files or mail folders, you can't do both at the same time. I'd proposed this idea before, and I considered looking into hacking it up, but there seemed to be very little support for the idea, so I let it drop. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail. Sorry for the inconvenience. Thank the spammers.
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