On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 11:19:04AM +0300, Nikola Petrov wrote: > On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 08:45:14PM +0200, Alexander Huemer wrote: > > I use mutt 1.5.21 with (among others) the sidebar patch. > > Now I am in a folder, let's sag it's name is 'mutt-users'. > > In this folder there are new emails (maked with 'N'). > > Then I hit the kit that is bound to 'next-unread-mailbox' and do some > > stuff there. > > All other folders I have don't contain unread emails. > > Now I hit my 'next-unread-mailbox' key again and get 'No mailboxes have > > new mail' and I am not warped back to 'mutt-users'. > > Those emails are now marked 'O', note that they are still unread. > > Obviously 'next-unread-mailbox' does not mean what I think. > > The help text says 'open next mailbox with new mail', somehow strange. > > The error message complains that there are no 'new' mails anywhere. > > 'unread' vs. 'new'. I think the phrasings to not match here. > > What I would like to achieve is to get a key binding that beams me to > > the next folder that contains emails which _I_ have not yet read, i.e. > > marked 'N' or 'O'. I did not find anything in the docs or online. > > I have the following in my muttrc for a while now. I didn't like the > "Old > messages" behaviour so.... > > #Don't mark unread messages but seen as old > set mark_old=no > set mail_check_recent=no > > bind index,pager <TAB> next-unread-mailbox > > this will take you to the next unread mailbox with tab. Not sure if > there is any binding by default
Thanks for your answer, Nikola. I am now using mark_old=no and mail_check_recent=no. Binding <TAB> to next-unread-mailbox did not work for me for navigating to the next unread mail in the current folder. I still use a different key for that. While the two set commands did have the desired effect I consider this a workaround and not a solution, since it's removing functionality to gain some other, but for me the fixup of 'next-unread-mailbox' has much higher value than the 'O' thing, and I guess the situation is similar for you. >From my point of view this is a bug. I am not sure whether the functionality of next-unread-mailbox is plain wrong or whether a different function is missing. When I find the time I will annoy a dev about that. Kind regards, -Alexander Huemer
