Also spracht Jeremy Blosser...
> I'm curious what benefit you think there is in a menu system over just a
> well-annotated .muttrc?  Presumably what a menu system would do is let you
> see what each variable does (theoretically using the manual entry for it so
> we stay consistent) and then let you set the value you want.  A .muttrc
> annotated with the manual entries does the same thing and is
> viewable/useful on any platform that has any text editor.  If you want to
> group options together in some way to make it easier to find what you're
> looking for you can do it just as well in a text file as with menus, IMHO.
> But maybe I'm missing something.

Screen clutter, for one. I'd personally prefer the annotations in a separate
part of the screen, as opposed to interspersed with the settings. It'd make
tweaking my .muttrc a lot quicker and more convenient.

m.

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