Hello, Ian.

On Sun, Apr 08, 2018 at 01:04:49 -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote:

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> I have tried contributing enhancements (the same ones) to both projects,
> and in the end I had to give up in the case of mutt and I maintained
> them as private patches for a while.  Then I learned about neomutt
> (seriously, I didn't know about it!) and they were accepted right away,
> after a style pass.

> mutt places very large weight on backward compatibility (and when a
> troglodyte like me says this, it really means something!)  I don't mean
> it as a value judgment, just pointing out there is a difference.

And yet - after I am finished reading an email, I am used to returning
to the message index by pressing 'i'.  This no longer works in (Gentoo's
version of) mutt 1.9.4.  Instead one must press 'x'.  It's driving me
crazy.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

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