#3714: Mutt send: 'Y' instead of 'y'
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Reporter: gauthma | Owner: mutt-dev
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: trivial | Milestone:
Component: user interface | Version:
Resolution: | Keywords:
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Comment (by code@…):
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On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 06:59:39PM -0000, Mutt wrote:
Indeed, it has been thus for something like 20 years. And there are
other ways to solve the problem (see below), so changing it now seems
like doing more harm than good.
I don't agree with the rationale, either. This isn't a GUI interface
where it's very easy to mis-click the wrong button. Before you can
send the message you need to have exited your editor to get to the
right screen in Mutt for sending the mail you just composed (the
compose menu), and then press the 'y' key. There are no other
commonly used functions that are mapped to keys near 'y' in that
context, and if your hands are in the "home" position on the keyboard,
pressing 'y' requires your index finger to stretch into a somewhat
unnatural position. So, the likelihood of accidentally sending a
message from Mutt under these circumstances is already very low
(though clearly will never be zero).
Moreover, you can already bind send-message to a different key
yourself... so if you really find that this is a problem for you, you
should just do that. I've actually never felt the need to remap my
keys, so I may have the exact details wrong, but I believe it should
be as simple as:
bind compose y noop
bind compose Y send-message
in your .muttrc file. It does not seem that 'Y' is already mapped to
something in that menu, so there would not even be any need to remap
any other functions to some other key.
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Ticket URL: <http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3714#comment:1>
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