suggesting screen-hook

[Felix Finch]

On 20201115, Franck Richter wrote:
>I wish to hide the sidebar when viewing emails, because copying >1 line of text with the mouse unfortunately includes the content of the sidebar in the copy buffer.
>
>Currently I am using following tricks that unfortunately fail time to time to show the sidebar again :
>  message-hook ~A 'set sidebar_visible=no'
>  macro pager q '<enter-command>set sidebar_visible=yes<enter><exit>'
>  (adapted from https://jhutar.blogspot.com/2018/09/hide-sidebar-when-viewing-message-in.html)
>
>  macro index \CB '<enter-command>toggle sidebar_visible<enter><refresh>'
>  macro pager \CB '<enter-command>toggle sidebar_visible<enter><redraw-screen>'
>
>To increase the cases where sidebar_visible=yes happens, I had to make other hooks I use more complex, ex:
>  folder-hook "$my_mailboxname/in$" macro index d '<save-message>+$my_mailboxname/trash<enter><enter-command>"set sidebar_visible=yes"<enter>'
>  folder-hook "$my_mailboxname/trash$" macro index d '<delete-message><enter-command>"set sidebar_visible=yes"<enter>'
>  folder-hook "$my_mailboxname/old$" macro index <F12> '<save-message>+$my_mailboxname/in<enter><enter-command>"set sidebar_visible=yes"<enter>'
>  folder-hook "$my_mailboxname/in$" macro index <F12> '<save-message>+$my_mailboxname/old<enter><enter-command>"set sidebar_visible=yes"<enter>'
>  folder-hook "$my_mailboxname/trash$" macro index <F12> '<save-message>+$my_mailboxname/in<enter><enter-command>"set sidebar_visible=yes"<enter>'
>Even with above, when manually saving mails in other mailboxes (via 's' or ';s'), I have to manually make sidebar visible again.
>
>
>[ Name alternatives ]
>screen-hook, context-hook, mode-hook... (doesn't matter)

I use the basic scheme you have of manually toggling visibility, and it is plenty fast and easy.  I use it for the same reason: copying multi-line text.

    # b toggles sidebar visibility
    macro index b '<enter-command>toggle sidebar_visible<enter>'
    macro pager b '<enter-command>toggle sidebar_visible<enter>'

    # Remap bounce-message function to "B"
    bind index B bounce-message

I've never needed any of the folder-hooks.  The sidebar is always visible unless I've toggled it off.

(It annoys me no end that gnome-terminal-server does not recognize that URLs can span multiple lines for the right click copy/open menu.)

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