I understand your concerns about this but I don't think you'll find it a
problem in the long run. I occasionally hit the wrong key and there is always
a way of undoing what I've done (aside from saying 'no' when Mutt actually asks
me if I really want to do something, which personally I like). Shift-W let's
me unclear a flag I've accidentally set and ctrl-c ('do you want to exit
mutt?') gets me out of any other situation (just remember to type n(o) when it
asks). There will be other more sophisticated ways of getting out of certain
situations, but for me these two work and are enough. As to all the other
key-bound functions, it doesn't matter that you don't use them. It's a big
tool box and over the time I've used Mutt I've learned to use some of the tools
when I've felt the need to do something (limit patterns for example). I think
you might be throwing the baby out with the bathwater if you disable all the
keybindings as then you may need to work out how to reinstate some function or
other when you feel the need to use it.
I'd say stick with Mutt as it is, I did, and in a few weeks time I think you'll
find that the keybinding thing is a non-issue. Just my thoughts. Whatever you
choose to do, once you get used to it, it's the best email client out there
IMHO (apart from when I get those pesky complex html messages and have to use
the Gmail web interface!).
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 01:49:04AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 10:09:37AM +0100, Martin Vegter wrote:
> >
> > I have found the following in the manual:
> >
> > bind index j noop
> > bind index k noop
> >
> > the problem with this approach is, that I have to unbind every
> > single key-binding explicitly.
>
> It makes no sense to unbind them all, so in reality it is not a
> problem.
>
> > I was wondering whether there is a better solution
>
> I'm wondering how you are actually going to use mutt at all.
> Is the problem you are trying to solve a real one? Have you been bitten
> by it yourself?
>
> You could set the quadoption to ask-yes or ask-no (depending on the
> action) so that a clumsy key press will bring up the dreaded "Are you
> sure you really want to do what you have just asked me to do?" dialog.
>
> --
> "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people
> who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the
> oppressing." --- Malcolm X
--
Dr Martin Orwin
Senior Lecturer in Somali and Amharic
Associate Head of the Department of the Languages and Cultures of Africa
SOAS
