[Pkg-mutt-maintainers] Bug#838992: mutt: using mutt, will not default to home mail directory: "c", "?" with "set folder" remains in /var/mail

[Alberto Garcia]

On Wed, Oct 05, 2016 at 01:37:39AM +0300, Alberto Garcia wrote:

> I'll also give my input on what changed in the folder navigation in
> Mutt recently.

Here's one other effect of the new folder navigation style that is
very annoying.

I have my e-mail locally in ~/mail, and let's say that I want to send
an new message with a few attachments.

When I'm in the Compose menu, I can press 'a' ('attach-file') to
select a file. Then I can navigate the filesystem (starting from
~/mail) to look for the file that I want to attach (let's say it's in
~/work/documents/reports/) and select it from there.

If I want to attach a new file, previous versions of Mutt would
start the navigation from the last directory, so I can attach 4 or
5 files very easily. The new versions forget the previous directory
and start again in ~/mail, forcing me to navigate every time to
~/work/documents/reports/. I can work around this by using tags and
the 'tag-prefix' command but the new behavior is quite annoying and
counter-intuitive.

Berto