On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 07:28:14PM -0700, "Kevin J. McCarthy" <ke...@8t8.us> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 04:34:10PM -0700, li...@ifohancroft.com wrote: > > Personally, I see a couple of possible solutions for select-message in > > index: > > Thanks for the feedback. > > I don't agree with #3, though. It sounds like you've recently started using > Mutt and are still adjusting to some of the concepts. I understand the > initial confusion, but that's not a justification for changing basic > functionality around. > > #1 is awkward to implement. > > So I'm still debating between making <select-entry> equivalent to > <display-message> or just having it print an error message. > > > > If your expectation wasn't to display the message with this > > > function, then perhaps it's better to not make it equivalent to > > > display-message, but try to display a more appropriate error message > > > instead. > > > > This is exactly what I meant. I think it would be best to not make it > > equivalent to display-message in the index. > > Since the function isn't currently implemented, I don't see the harm in > making them equivalent. Displaying the message seems the most natural > interpretation of "selection" in the index when compared to its usage in the > other menus. > > Do any old timers have an opinion on this? > > -- > Kevin J. McCarthy > GPG Fingerprint: 8975 A9B3 3AA3 7910 385C 5308 ADEF 7684 8031 6BDA Tagging/untagging the current message seems like another natural interpretation of "select" to me. I'm not advocating for that. It's just what I think of as "selection". But you don't agree with that (the first half of #3). I guess the difference is whether you think that a "selection" can only contain a single item and so the purpose of the selection should be performed immediately (so display-message makes sense), or whether a selection can contain multiple items and so the purpose of the selection might need to be delayed until the selection process is complete (so tag-entry makes sense). But like I said, I'm not advocating for this. I don't even tag messages, and even if I did, there's already a keystroke for doing that. cheers, raf P.S. Thanks so much for all your work on mutt. It's much appreciated, every single day.
