#3651: vanishing input wrt entry of folders with spaces in names
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Reporter: balderdash | Owner: mutt-dev
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone:
Component: user interface | Version: 1.5.21
Keywords: |
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The following bug affects all versions of OS X from 10.4.11 through
10.8.5, including PPC versions up through the last one (10.5.8). I am on
the latest tip of mutt from the hg repo. This bug has been around for at
least a year.
Mutt is buggy wrt imap folder names that have spaces in them. In
particular, here is what happens with an imap Gmail account. On Gmail,
the location of all "sent mail" is:
{{{
=[Gmail]/Sent Mail
}}}
However, if in mutt I do the following keystrokes to view the contents of
that folder:
{{{
c=[Gmail]/Sent<space>
}}}
then immediately the text-entry prompt is *cleared*. As soon as the space
key is hit, everything I had typed vanishes, though mutt remains in the
prompt waiting for me to enter a folder name.
It doesn't matter whether you escape the space first with a backslash, or
include the whole thing in quotes.
This makes it impossible to go straight to that folder. One must do "c?"
and navigate.
As far as I can see, this is a totally general problem. It doesn't need
to be a gmail account, and it doesn't have to be a request to view an imap
folder. Mutt destroys what I've entered even if I look for a local folder
with a space in the name.
Now, I normally NEVER put spaces in the names of my folders, but in the
case of Gmail I have no choice. So this bug could be really old, because
I haven't used Gmail for very long.
Also, I discovered that one can do:
{{{
c=[Gmail]/Se<tab>
}}}
and mutt will autocomplete the relevant text. So there is a workaround.
But it is still a bug.
Note that this behavior occurs on both Terminal.app and iTerm.app, and it
doesn't matter whether the emulation is set to xterm-color or xterm-
256color. Also I have ruled out my local muttrc and friends as the
culprit, by moving them out of the way and noting the problem with a fresh
mutt.
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Ticket URL: <http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3651>
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