On Tuesday, 25 September 2007 at 21:48, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > On Tuesday, September 25 at 04:54 PM, quoth Joseph: > >I've seen an interesting sidebar patch for mutt, though it was just that > >"a patch" is not new and was never implemented. > >I am just curious as to the reason why it was never implemented. > > Eh? It *was* implemented - that patch is the implementation. > > If you're asking why it was never added to the mainstream mutt, the > answer is a contentious one, but one which can be found by searching > the mutt mailing list archives. It was deemed "froofy" by one of the > main mutt developers > (http://marc.info/?l=mutt-dev&m=112118911225394&w=2), and heavily > broken by one of the others > (http://marc.info/?l=mutt-dev&m=112133798519807&w=2).
I'm not actually against the idea any more -- just the implementation.