The Sidebar shows a list of all your mailboxes. The list can be turned
on and off, it can be themed and the list style can be configured.
Beginner-friendly howto:
https://flatcap.org/mutt/manual.html#intro-sidebar
Full Reference:
https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/wiki/sidebar
## Updates
This version of Sidebar started as Terry Chan's 2015-11-11 release.
In addition it now has:
* Lots of new features
- Mailbox sorting
- Separation of open/highlighted mailboxes
- Toggle visible function
- Flexible colours
- Options to filter display of mailboxes
- Flexible parsing/indenting of mailbox names
* Lots of bug fixes
- Fixed utf-8 support
- Handle "unmailboxes *" safely
- Check all pointers
- Refresh -- time overflowed short
* Comprehensive Documentation
- Beginners' Howto
- Full Reference Guide
* Code Overhaul
- Tidied
- Conditional compilation (configure --enable-sidebar)
- Refactoring to reduce complexity
- Commented functions
- Made more robust
## Features
The Sidebar shows a list of mailboxes in a panel.
Everything about the Sidebar can be configured.
State of the Sidebar
* Visibility
* Width
Which mailboxes are displayed
* Display all
* Limit to mailboxes with new mail
* Whitelist mailboxes to display always
The order in which mailboxes are displayed
* Unsorted (order of mailboxes commands)
* Sorted alphabetically
* Sorted by number of new mails
Color
* Sidebar indicators and divider
* Mailboxes depending on their type
* Mailboxes depending on their contents
Key bindings
* Hide/Unhide the Sidebar
* Select previous/next mailbox
* Select previous/next mailbox with new mail
* Page up/down through a list of mailboxes
Misc
* Formatting string for mailbox
* Wraparound searching
* Flexible mailbox abbreviations
* Support for Unicode mailbox names (utf-8)
## Bug Fixes
These bugs have been fixed since the previous Sidebar release: 2015-11-11.
* Fix bug when starting in compose mode
* Fix bug with empty sidebar_divider_char string
* Fix bug with header wrapping
* Correctly handle utf8 character sequences
* Fix a bug in mh_buffy_update
* Fix refresh -- time overflowed short
* Protect against empty format strings
* Limit Sidebar width to COLS
* Handle unmailboxes * safely
* Refresh Sidebar after timeout
## Config Changes
Some of the Sidebar config has been changed to make its meaning clearer.
These changes have been made since the previous Sidebar release:
2015-11-11.
| Old Name | New Name |
|------------------------|-------------------------|
| $sidebar_delim | $sidebar_divider_char |
| $sidebar_folderindent | $sidebar_folder_indent |
| $sidebar_indentstr | $sidebar_indent_string |
| $sidebar_newmail_only | $sidebar_new_mail_only |
| $sidebar_refresh | $sidebar_refresh_time |
| $sidebar_shortpath | $sidebar_short_path |
| $sidebar_sort | $sidebar_sort_method |
| <sidebar-scroll-down> | <sidebar-page-down> |
| <sidebar-scroll-up> | <sidebar-page-up> |
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Rich Russon (FlatCap) <[email protected]>
