[I took the liberty of reformatting this. Please reply below what you are
quoting/replying to.]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> > > How would I go about replying to all????
> >
> > Why the heck is this becoming a FAQ? Doesn't anyone RTFM anymore?
>
> Because it's simple yet non-intutive?
<rant>
I don't believe I said anything like "Why is this a FAQ? Isn't it
easy enough that people can just intuit it correctly?". I asked why this
is a FAQ when it's such an easy thing to find by Reading The [Friendly]
Manual:
-----><-----
% grep -i "group-reply" /usr/local/doc/mutt/manual.txt
g group-reply reply to all recipients
Conversely, when group-replying or list-replying to a message which
honored when group-replying to a message.
group-reply g reply to all recipients
group-reply g reply to all recipients
group-reply g reply to all recipients
-----><-----
Even if you don't know what to call it in Mutt, it's still easy enough to
look in the manual and find it.
I don't really care about intuitiveness. Plenty of tools have shown the
incredible power they can have if they worry less about easily-guessable
commands and just implement the necessary features with what keybindings
are available, then tell users what keybindings to use in the *gasp* manual
and then make them *gasp* configurable as well.
Mutt is intended as a mailer for experts. Whatever else that may mean, it
does mean people are expected to be able to read the manual to use it
effectively.
This isn't meant as anything against the person that asked this question in
particular, which is why I didn't include his/her name. It's more of a
general observation -- Mutt seems to be getting a lot of new users lately,
and more and more of them are asking every one of their questions on the
list instead of looking for the answer for themselves, as is obvious
considering how easily some of these questions are answered.
Please don't take advantage of the list members. We all have other things
to do than quoting the manual to people or deleting excessively easy
questions and the 15 identical replies they get (but yay delete-thread).
And all that having been said, I agree with Telsa -- 'g' makes perfect
sense for 'group-reply'. 'R' makes perfect sense for 'recall [postponed]'.
'p' makes perfect sense for 'print', etc. They can't be more than one
thing (well, they could be, but lets hear the complaints about intuitive
behaviour then), and when you have a lot of features/functions, you take
the ones that are left that make the most sense. Users can RTFM to find
out what they are.
</rant>
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