On 08-04-2018 ,11:44:25, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Ian. > > On Sun, Apr 08, 2018 at 01:04:49 -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > [ .... ] > > > I have tried contributing enhancements (the same ones) to both projects, > > and in the end I had to give up in the case of mutt and I maintained > > them as private patches for a while. Then I learned about neomutt > > (seriously, I didn't know about it!) and they were accepted right away, > > after a style pass. > > > mutt places very large weight on backward compatibility (and when a > > troglodyte like me says this, it really means something!) I don't mean > > it as a value judgment, just pointing out there is a difference. > > And yet - after I am finished reading an email, I am used to returning > to the message index by pressing 'i'. This no longer works in (Gentoo's > version of) mutt 1.9.4. Instead one must press 'x'. It's driving me > crazy. > > -- > Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
Interestingly, my mutt shows a message saying "No news server defined!" for a few seconds and then returns me to the index. Usually I press the down arrow to read the next message and so on until I run out of new messages to read, which then also returns me to the index.
