Re: Rolling in sidebar, other mutt-ng type bits?

[Kyle Wheeler <kyle-mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Thursday, October 23 at 04:08 PM, quoth Robin Lee Powell:
> mutt-ng had a sidebar feature; I have no idea if that's the same 
> code as the one at 
> http://www.lunar-linux.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=44 
> , which is what I was comparing to.
>
> Is mutt-ng's sidebar the same as that one?

I believe so, yes; otherwise, I think Rocco would have brought the 
sidebar over.

> "man muttrc" doesn't explain why it's not on by default; can I get a 
> pointer to that?

I don't know *authoritatively*, but I believe there are two answers: 
the first being backwards compatibility (i.e. that by default, mutt 
should behave as it always has, not suddenly start sticking files 
somewhere; that would be a privacy breach waiting to happen), and 
second being that mutt's default mode of operation is not remote 
mailbox browsing (though that's what many people primarily use it 
for), but rather local mbox or Maildir browsing. Mutt has so many 
config options, the defaults have to be geared to a particular use 
case. In this case, mutt's default use-case is fetching mail out of 
/var/spool/mail/$user and depositing it into some sort of ~/mail mbox. 
Header caching may not be much of a win, and message caching 
*certainly* isn't useful in that situation.

> Thank you for clearing things up for me!  Sorry to have failed to 
> find for what are obviously FAQs.

NP - sometimes it's worth writing a long explanation just to get it 
into the archive for other people (and google) to find.

~Kyle
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