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On Sunday, March 30 at 11:23 PM, quoth Alain Bench:
>> The space there triggers mutt to replace everything you've typed
>> thus far with the name of whatever mailboxes contain new email.
>
> To insert a literal space at the folder prompt, you can first call
>the <quote-char> function (bound to ^V by default), then press <Space>.
>
>| macro index,pager S "<change-folder>=[Gmail]/Sent<quote-char> Mail<Enter>"
Ah! Beautiful; I had no idea <quote-char> existed. Dang, I should read
functions.h more closely. Thanks very much, Alain.
> Well, as the <Space> key is bound to <buffy-cycle>, it would be
>quite difficult to call a function when first at prompt, and print
>a literal space otherwise. And anyway users may still want to
><buffy-cycle> even after having typed something else. People happen to
>change their minds.
Meh. I think it is more expected that you'll have to jump through
hoops when you change your mind than that you'd have to jump through
hoops just to open up a folder whose name you know ahead of time. It's
equivalent to having bound "m" to the <buffy-cycle> function; the only
difference is that many Unix folk have gotten into the habit of
avoiding the use of spaces in file names (because so many scripts are
badly written), and so the problem with the default binding is ignored
because "ahh, shaddup, just stop using spaces" is such an easier
answer.
>But changing the default of such a well-established binding
>as <Space> to <buffy-cycle>, that would be an annoyance bigger than the
>occasional necessity to ^V.
Yeah... And I've bound <buffy-cycle> to ^N in my mutt so it doesn't
bother me, it's just that I wish previous poor interface decisions
could be revisited (I understand why they cannot).
~Kyle
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