Hi there,
Timothy Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Thu, 08 Jun 2000:
> Being a Mutt newbie, I don't know what negative side effects might be caused
> by my desire. The default Mutt behaviour has the j key going to the next
> message. I think I would prefer that it go to the next unread message. I
> think I am capable of writing the macro to make that happen. However, I
> don't know what undesirable side effects that might occur should I do this.
> Is there a downside that I don't see?
No there aren't.
The only thing to watch out for is other macros which might expect that
j is bound to next-undeleted, but you presumably know of any macros that
you have defined (if you don't know of any, then there probably aren't
any...) and whether they depend on that binding or not.
Anyway, it's better to write macros which don't depend on specific keys,
by specifying <function-name> instead, just to avoid this kind of
situations.
One final note: you probably don't need a macro, just re-binding of the
j key. Mutt already has the next-new (or maybe it was next-unread, I
forget) function.
> I
> also would love to turn off the scroll bar, but the -sb switch doesn't
> appear to work.
Experiment with +sb instead. In many X programs some option is turned
on with -<option> and turned off with +<option> (yes, it's bit backwards).
Regards,
Mikko
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