Hello Chuck,
Chuck Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Wed, 01 Mar 2000:
> 1. Is is possible to remove the roughly half-second wait while "Mailbox
> is unchanged" flashes in the status line when moving to a different
> mailbox?
I don't think it's possible to remove this. Why do you want it gone?
I think it's useful to know if the mailbox was changed (and how many
messages were deleted etc.) or not.
> 2. In the mailbox selection screen, there is no quick way to jump to one
> of the folders that is not right near the top of the list. I can use
> [down] or press the number of the mailbox I want. However either
> requires a number of keypresses. If I press the number of a mailbox I
> want to go directly to that mailbox and open it, not have to press enter
> twice. With the current functionality, to go to mailbox 9 you have to
> press 9 [enter] [enter] to get into the mailbox. While not normally a
> problem this is annoying when you are switching between mailboxes a few
> times in a session.
Hmm. I'm not sure if this is feasible, but I can see a solution such
as whenever you're in the change-folder menu, you bind <Return> in the
editor (the line editor) to something like "<enter><select-entry>",
which will finish the current line and then do a select-entry function.
I'm not sure if this would have some adverse effects though, because
then Mutt would *always* do a select-entry after line editing, not just
if you started with numbers. And then you'd also need to have some kind
of hook or something to re-bind <Return> in the editor to it's normal
functionality, once you're out of the menu selection.
I don't think it should be just changed in the code to behave like what
you want, because I can see that people (me included) would want to type
in the folder number to jump to that folder, and then see if he/she got
it right -- if the folder entry was off-screen, you might've remembered
the number wrong, or even have no idea which folder that number was.
> 3. Folders with new mail are not always marked as such in the Mailbox
> selection screen. It is useless having a feature that only works half
> the time.
Do you have external mailbox new mail checking? A "biff" program, or
maybe your shell checking the folders? These kind of things can mess
up the folder access times.
Since you didn't say, I assume you're using mbox-style folders (yes,
there are alternatives which aren't so prone to having this check fail).
> 4. Is there much overhead in having Mutt watch a folder for new mail?
It depends on the folder type, but for mbox folders, not really I think.
> At the moment my
> mailboxes line is: "mailboxes ! `echo ~/Mail/*`". But this seems rather
> kludgy. Any recommendations?
I would only list the real incoming mail folders with the "mailboxes"
command. I prefix all my incoming mail folders with IN. so I could (but
don't) do: mailboxes ! `echo ~/Mail/IN.*`
> 5. Would it possible to have a next-folder and previous-folder command in Mutt
>somewhere so I
> could move back and forward between folders with a single key?
>From the manual:
4.7. Mailbox Shortcuts
<snip>
· - -- refers to the file you've last visited
Just set up a macro that does "c-<enter>" and pressing that key will
take you to the previous mail folder.
> Also
> next-new-folder would be good, to go to the next folder with new mail.
When you press c, the default prompt is the first mail folder with new
mail listed in your mailboxes line. So a macro doing "c<enter>" should
work. (Only problem here is that it will always start from the
beginning of the mailboxes listing, so you probably want to list the
mailboxes in the order of prioririty and preference then.)
This does rely on Mutt being able to detect which folders have new mail
though, if that's broken then that will affect things here too.
> Actually a command to go to the next new message anywhere would be
> useful as well.
When I open a folder, Mutt starts at the first new message in that
folder. So by using the above macro, you'd get that behaviour.
Regards,
Mikko
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