On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 12:19:29PM -0700, Tracy R Reed wrote:
> I am subscribed to a LOT of mailing lists. 34, actually. And I find myself
> switching around between them fairly often as I try to keep up on the latest
> news with various projects.
>
> There are a couple things that I wish mutt could do:
>
> 1. Build a hash index of all of the info displayed in the index so it doesn't
> have to scan every file in the maildir (or read the whole mbox for those using
> mbox) every time I open the folder as well as check for new emails and only
> read those once to get the info for the hash index. I've never seen a
> Unix/Linux based mailreader that actually does this. They all seem to scan the
> whole folder every time. The info could be stored in a ~Maildir/.indexhash file
> or something and regenerated if it is deleted for some reason.
Would be nice...
> 2. Display a summary of how many read/unread/etc. in the folder list.
Yeah, $folder_format should be able to do this.
> 3. A faster and easier way to switch from one folder to another. Currently I
> hit
>
> c ? <j as many times as necessary to get to the next folder I want to read> \n
>
> It would be nice if I could just hit N to go to the next folder. There may be a
> way to do this with macros already but I'm not sure how one would get the next
> folder name. This wouldn't be all that useful until the above mentioned has
> index was working anyway due to the slow speed of parsing the folders.
typing: c =mutt
and using tab completions are a faster way to switch.
Or: c <space><space>
etc. will scroll through all your mailboxes with new mail.
There are some pretty good ideas. Why don't you post them of the
mutt-dev list and see what they say?
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Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
