On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 09:53:17AM +0100, Scott Stevenson wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 06:56:46AM +1100, Brian Salter-Duke wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 06:46:11PM +0100, Scott Stevenson wrote:
> > > On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 07:52:57PM +0530, dexter wrote:
> > > > I'm new to mutt, just installed one and getting
> > > > to know it, how do i get sidebar in mutt, google
> > > > search tells me that i have to apply a patch,
> > > > i'm running on ubuntu, where can i get this patch?
> > >
> > > Debian and derivatives such as Ubuntu provide a `mutt-patched` package,
> > > which includes the sidebar patch.
> >
> > I have Ubuntu 12.04 and Mutt 1.5.21 (2010-09-15) unmodified by me. It
> > does not have the sidebar patch as far as I can see.
>
> Then I suspect you have the `mutt` package [0] installed rather than
> `mutt-patched` [1]. The sidebar patch is only included in the latter.
>
> [0] http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/mail/mutt
> [1] http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/mail/mutt-patched
Yes, you are right. mutt has a whole lot of patches included, so I did
not think to look for a more patched version. I have long been wary
about the sidebar patch but had never tried it. I now understand why it
is not included in the main release and I fully support that. It is
easier to use mutt without it. Unfortunately installing mutt-patched
installed /usr/bin/mutt-patched but overwrote /usr/bin/mutt to be a soft
link to mutt-patched. I had to uninstall mutt-patched and then reinstall
mutt to get rid of the sidebar. Back to normal now.
Brian.
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