unbind (all) key bindings

2013-11-25 Thread Martin Vegter

hello,

as a new user, I feel intimidated by the many key bindings in Mutt.
Not only do I see no chance of ever needing more than 5% of them, but I 
am afraid that by accidentally pressing some key, I will perform some 
"action" without knowing what happened.


I have very simple requirements from my email client. I don't need two 
separate key binding for "next-entry" and "next-undeleted", for example.


I would like to unbind all key bindings, so that I can explicitly define 
only those, that I am actually going to use.


While googling, I have discovered that I am not the only one having this 
problem. There even seems to be a patch called "unbind":


http://home.uchicago.edu/~dgc/mutt/#unbind

but only for version 1.4 and 1.5.1. I am using mutt version 
1.5.21-6.2+deb7u1, so I am not sure if that would work.


Could somebody please advise, what would be the best way to do it?


Re: unbind (all) key bindings

2013-11-25 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Martin Vegter  [11-25-13 17:33]:
> as a new user, I feel intimidated by the many key bindings in Mutt.  Not
> only do I see no chance of ever needing more than 5% of them, but I am
> afraid that by accidentally pressing some key, I will perform some
> "action" without knowing what happened.
> 
> I have very simple requirements from my email client. I don't need two
> separate key binding for "next-entry" and "next-undeleted", for example.
> 
> I would like to unbind all key bindings, so that I can explicitly define
> only those, that I am actually going to use.
> 
> While googling, I have discovered that I am not the only one having this
> problem. There even seems to be a patch called "unbind":
> 
> http://home.uchicago.edu/~dgc/mutt/#unbind
> 
> but only for version 1.4 and 1.5.1. I am using mutt version
> 1.5.21-6.2+deb7u1, so I am not sure if that would work.
> 
> Could somebody please advise, what would be the best way to do it?

I would look at the help file in mutt and add to ~/.muttrc
  bind  /dev/null
and then you would have a record of what you have changed and have a
 simple way to revert.  
 
not tested.
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