Re: UI enhancements

2007-09-02 Thread Rocco Rutte
Hi, * Marco d'Itri [07-09-01 11:58:56 +0200] wrote: On Aug 31, Thomas Roessler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sounds like a good idea. I wonder, though, whether it might be useful to move the subwindow toward the bottom of the screen, to basically grow out of the status bar / entry line. I'd su

Re: UI enhancements

2007-09-02 Thread Derek Martin
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 10:08:08AM +0200, Thomas Roessler wrote: > > I'm in no way suggesting that the GUI interface should/could > > replace the terminal-oriented interface... just that both are > > often quite useful. I'm also aware that mutt can do formatting > > of rtf messages, but that requi

Re: UI enhancements

2007-09-02 Thread Derek Martin
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 10:08:08AM +0200, Thomas Roessler wrote: > On 2007-09-02 00:44:15 -0400, Derek Martin wrote: > > > This, on the other hand, seems kind of yucky to me... not because > > there's anything inherently bad about it, but just because it > > breaks with long-standing UI design pra

[PATCH] Add 'show' keyword

2007-09-02 Thread Rocco Rutte
Hi, the attached patch adds a 'show' keyword to display certain runtime information in paged menus. Currently implemented are: 1) 'show attachments' to show current attachment configs (replaces 'attachments ?' which is kept for compatibility) 2) 'show config [regex]' to display all mutt op

Re: UI enhancements

2007-09-02 Thread Paul Walker
On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 05:40:05PM +0200, Rocco Rutte wrote: > 1) mutt_multi_choice() is currently used to let the user choose from quite > a number of possible options. To fit in 80x25 they're abbreviated which That looks nice. ;-) > 2) When interactively entering 'attachments ?' it'll end cu

Re: UI enhancements

2007-09-02 Thread Thomas Roessler
On 2007-09-02 15:08:10 +0200, Vladimír Marek wrote: >> Tag the messages you want to reply. Then "; r" and you have >> them all in your editor ;) > That's insane :) It would never cross my mind that you can tag-reply. Nah... tag-replying is a totally essential feature. :) -- Thomas Roessler

Re: UI enhancements

2007-09-02 Thread Vladimír Marek
> I don't think that was meant. What was meant (I think) was this: when > writing some reply to a message in a thread, you want to re-read a part > of it and possibly refer to another message ala "foo wrote this" or "bar > wrote that". > > If you have the editor in a different window and mutt s

Re: UI enhancements

2007-09-02 Thread Vladimír Marek
> > JUst out of curiosity, how do you compose message out of different > > mails ? For example you reply to someone, but need to include part > > of another mail you got the day before. [...] > > I'm just wondering if someone is using some trick or something > > more user friendly. > > Tag the mes

[PATCH] Add curses dialogs for sorting choice

2007-09-02 Thread Rocco Rutte
Hi, the attached patch adds mutt_multi_choice_dlg() for getting a choice out of multiple via a dialog rather than a prompt in the status line. Some notes about it: 1) I'm not a curses export and this patch is untested for slang. 2) For now it uses the status color which probably should be ch

Re: UI enhancements

2007-09-02 Thread Rocco Rutte
Hi, * Derek Martin [07-09-02 00:44:15 -0400] wrote: On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 05:40:05PM +0200, Rocco Rutte wrote: 1) mutt_multi_choice() is currently used to let the user choose from quite a number of possible options. To fit in 80x25 they're abbreviated which obviously doesn't look nice. I've

Re: UI enhancements

2007-09-02 Thread Rocco Rutte
Hi, * Vladimír Marek [07-09-02 11:34:50 +0200] wrote: JUst out of curiosity, how do you compose message out of different mails ? For example you reply to someone, but need to include part of another mail you got the day before. I don't think that was meant. What was meant (I think) was this:

Re: UI enhancements

2007-09-02 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Derek Martin wrote: On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 05:40:05PM +0200, Rocco Rutte wrote: 1) mutt_multi_choice() is currently used to let the user choose from quite a number of possible options. To fit in 80x25 they're abbreviated which obviously doesn't look nice. I've put together

Re: UI enhancements

2007-09-02 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sun, 02 Sep 2007 the mental interface of Vladimír Marek told: > [...] [...] > JUst out of curiosity, how do you compose message out of different > mails ? For example you reply to someone, but need to include part > of another mail you got the day before. > > The way I'm using is to do normal

Re: UI enhancements

2007-09-02 Thread Vladimír Marek
[...] > > FWIW, I've also always wanted Mutt to have a multi-paned interface, > > not unlike most GUI mailers: one pane for the folder list, one for the > > message index, and one to display messages. > > Incidentally, I wouldn't want to have that particular kind of UI for > myself. The current

Re: UI enhancements

2007-09-02 Thread Thomas Roessler
On 2007-09-02 00:44:15 -0400, Derek Martin wrote: > This, on the other hand, seems kind of yucky to me... not because > there's anything inherently bad about it, but just because it > breaks with long-standing UI design practices. Dialog boxes > generally go in the middle of the main window, and