#3908: Documentation of sidebar_status: "new messages" should be called "unread"
instead
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Reporter: cri | Owner: mutt-dev
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone:
Component: doc | Version:
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In the documentation of `sidebar_status`, the term "new messages" should
be replaced with "unread messages"; in the rest of the documentation (and
of the program) "new" messages are messages with the "New" flag set, see
for example `status_format`.
If you compare the number of (wrongly called) "new messages" displayed by
`%N` in `sidebar_status`, with the number of (rightly called) "new
messages" displayed by `%n` in `status_format`, they won't match; this can
be puzzling for the user.
Indeed: `%N` (sidebar_status) = `%n` + `%o` (status_format)
So `%N` (sidebar_status) should be called "unread" instead of "new".
Here you are the occurrences that should be fixed in the documentation:
- init.h: line 2760: "Number of New messages in the mailbox"
- doc/manual.xml.head: in the "table-sidebar-sort" table, line 8468:
"Number of new messages"
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Ticket URL: <https://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3908>
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