Changing Folders Quickly #4045
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I'm not sure whether I'd be the target audience for this feature, so please take my words with grain of salt. Example:
Executing The reason is apparent, because the mailbox definition isn't necessarily prefixed with the same string as in the case of IMAP/maildir, but the mailbox label of named-mailboxes can be. Notmuch mailboxes can be defined by large amount of information: tags, dates, subjects, sender adress, adressees, mimetypes, notmuch defined queries or even custom notmuch defined headers present in the messages. |
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What about being able to pipe all active mailboxes to an external command? This would allow the usage of tools like fzf or dmenu and the output could be captured and composed into a |
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this is calling for an incremental multi-search, where you just enter several partial strings which are AND-ed to filter down a selection. such a UI really only works with a drop-down, so it doesn't fit very well with mutt's traditional one-line input layout. the sidebar is inherently more "menu-like", so it fits better there. but the change-folder command also has a browser mode where this would fit. |
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This started with an IRC user who wanted to
<change-folder>
, but found that typing+
or=
was awkward.They wanted to just type a folder name.
Unfortunately this doesn't work because
<change-folder>
is effectively working in the "root directory".My first idea was a
<change-folder-relative>
command.This would allow changing folder to
../work
etc.It's a bit more efficient, but a bit clunky.
Then I remembered the
CDPATH
environment variable in Bash (and others).Imagine a NeoMutt config variable:
To be really effective, the auto-completion would have to be aware of
$folder_path
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