have extra function to change to mailboxes browser directly without "toggle-mailboxes"

[rado@…]

When defining mailboxes it's hard for newbs to find them,
because "toggle-mailboxes" is hidden in browser mode
and people are not aware of its own help screen.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:

[Alain Bench <veronatif@…>]

Hi Rado, and thanks for the suggestion.

 On Thursday, September 15, 2005 at 12:01:16 PM +0200, Rado Smiljanic wrote:

> When defining mailboxes it's hard for newbs to find them, because
> "toggle-mailboxes" is hidden in browser mode and people are not aware
> of its own help screen.

    I believe that coding a <function> to do something already doable
may be considered <rot13>oybng</>.

    But what about adding a demo macro to /etc/Muttrc, doing
<change-folder>?<toggle-mailboxes>, and bound to [y] (think mutt -y)?
The same [y] key would exit from browser, giving a toggle effect
convenient to quickly see where new mail arrived. A poor men's sidebar.

    The uploaded patch-1.5.10.ab.mailboxes_macro.1 does that, together
with some update of the other macros.


Bye!	Alain.
-- 
A "Reply-To:" header field pointing to the same email address
as the "From:" is uselessly redundant: A loss of space.

[ab]

upload patch-1.5.10.ab.mailboxes_macro.1

[Rado S <rado@…>]

[=3D- Alain Bench wrote on Fri 16.Sep'05 at  1:35:01 +0200 -=3D]

>  > When defining mailboxes it's hard for newbs to find them, because
>  > "toggle-mailboxes" is hidden in browser mode and people are not awar=
e
>  > of its own help screen.
> =20
> I believe that coding a <function> to do something already
> doable may be considered <rot13>oybng</>.

I'm sorry for not having spent more thoughts on this, I didn't
care as much about the implementation as for bringing attention to
this issue. I should have found the better solution myself.

Another solution would have been to move the functionality from
browser-mode (toggel-mailboxes) to index-mode (view-mailboxes),
but then again people would cry because of "things used to be that
way". :-/
I wish people would consider usablity improvements worth breaking
with (sometimes bad) heritage. ;)

> But what about adding a demo macro to /etc/Muttrc, doing
> <change-folder>?<toggle-mailboxes>, and bound to [y] (think mutt
> -y)? The same [y] key would exit from browser, giving a toggle
> effect convenient to quickly see where new mail arrived. A poor
> men's sidebar.

It's definitely an improvement, thank you for catching up me
lazyness!

--=20
=A9 Rado S. -- So much to do, but too little time to take care of it all.

[brendan]

Hi Rado, and thanks for the suggestion.
 [=3D- Alain Bench wrote on Fri 16.Sep'05 at  1:35:01 +0200 -=3D]
Patch applied, merci Alain. I'd been using the same macro myself for some 
time...

[anonymous]

patch-1.5.10.ab.mailboxes_macro.1.gz