On Thu, May 11, 2000 at 10:08:12AM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> Well, I sort of know what the 'browser' is but there's nowhere in the
> manual that actually tells you. There is also nowhere that tells you
> how to get to the [file] browser.
I found the browser very confusing. The default 'c' which means
<change-folder> in the index and pager has the similar but
different meaning of <change-directory> in the browser.
I finally gave up and wrote these macros:
macro browser c <select-entry><change-folder>
bind browser C change-dir
I just found out that this first macro hangs mutt when the cursor
is on the parent directory for example. I hit <ctrl-z> and I can
see from ps that it is eating up CPU. Usually it works, because
on mailboxes, <select-entry> places you in the index, where
<change-folder> is defined. There is no <change-folder>
function in the browser.
In fact, I rarely use anything else than the mailboxes screen
from the browser. I do not send attachments or stuff that I've
worked on from other directories I have. I would be quite happy
to see the file browser ripped out and made a separate program
like urlview to be interfaced with mutt. Then it could have
things like rm, mkdir, etc which would make it really useful to
me. In fact, does anyone know of a file manager like this with
menus I can use instead of doing it all on the command line?
Instead, the functions of the mailbox screen could then be
beefed up so they were more similar to those of the index. Things
like <next-new> for example. And cycling through mailboxes on
<change-folder>.
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Greg Matheson "Vent the pent:"
Chinmin College, Taiwan Samuel Beckett
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