I am gradually learning to use Mutt. I've noticed a behavior in Mutt that annoys me. Maybe there is a fix already available. If not, consider this a suggestion.
When I use the history file to quickly find a recently used mailbox, I notice repeats of mailbox names that have already appeared earlier in the scroll-back. I think this should not happen. The current behavior seems to be as if the scroll-back reads a file, and each time the user selects a mailbox to open, Mutt writes a new history with the new selection inserted at the beginning, such as: mv .history .history.old -f echo "$newboxname" >.history cat .history.old >>.history I think it would be better to have: mv .history .history.old -f echo "$newboxname" >.history cat .history.old | grep -v "$newboxname" >>.history With this, each mailbox name appears only once What say you? Is there already something better? Is there some reason why this won't really work? Or why it won't do what I want? But mostly, already something better? -- Paul E Condon [email protected]
