Gero Treuner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Fri, 26 May 2000:
> What about making the help screen a menu ...
> ? must be hardcoded, or a comparable solution.
No, you can bind that to ? if you can use the enter-command function.
"help" is a bindable function just like any other...
But this discussion is a bit moot, it's not practical to enter all
the settings manually with : even if it was somehow enabled but nothing
else wasn't. So either Mutt needs a Muttrc/.muttrc, or there needs to
be defaults.
David DeSimone's point is a good one, maybe it isn't a design goal to
have Mutt runnable without some kind of configuration file. Still, this
can cause all kinds of odd situations where there are no keybindings.
For example, when trying to see if some Muttrc setting is affecting
some behaviour, a user loads only his own .muttrc (mutt -n). Since the
keybindings are all in the system Muttrc, he ends up with a Mutt with no
key bindings at all... And no way to quit, either. (Except ^C or
process kill.) This kind of mistake would be only too easy to make.
Some some kind of effort should be taken to make sure there are some key
bindings at least for the basic functions... quit, at least. help and
enter-command, possibly.
To me, it sounds like a potential mess, and it would be easier to just
implement a better solution for un-binding and un-macroing keys, than
the current one (which is the real problem here...).
Regards,
Mikko
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