Re: sidebar patch
On Tuesday, 25 September 2007 at 21:48, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
> On Tuesday, September 25 at 04:54 PM, quoth Joseph:
> >I've seen an interesting sidebar patch for mutt, though it was just that
> >"a patch" is not new and was never implemented.
> >I am just curious as to the reason why it was never implemented.
>
> Eh? It *was* implemented - that patch is the implementation.
>
> If you're asking why it was never added to the mainstream mutt, the
> answer is a contentious one, but one which can be found by searching
> the mutt mailing list archives. It was deemed "froofy" by one of the
> main mutt developers
> (http://marc.info/?l=mutt-dev&m=112118911225394&w=2), and heavily
> broken by one of the others
> (http://marc.info/?l=mutt-dev&m=112133798519807&w=2).
I'm not actually against the idea any more -- just the
implementation.