sidebar_format Not Showing Number of Unread Emails

Mon Jan 3 11:40:17 UTC 2022

Hi everyone,

happy new year to all of you!

I have a small issue with sidebar_format that I cannot really sort out. 
If I set this sidebar_format

	set sidebar_format = '%B%* %n'

Mutt highlights the folder with unread messages, but does not show the 
number, but no count at all:

     fortran-lang                 |1497   F │ 24.12.21 14:12 │ ...
     help-make                    |1498     │ 24.12.21 15:16 │ ...
     lfortran                     |1499 r F │ 26.12.21 18:04 │ ...

If I use

	set sidebar_format = '%B%* %N'

correctly shows unread counts for all mailboxes:

     fortran-lang                1│1497   F │ 24.12.21 14:12 │ ...
     help-make                  27│1498     │ 24.12.21 15:16 │ ...
     lfortran                    0│1499 r F │ 26.12.21 18:04 │ ...

I cannot make it work to only show the number for the mailboxes count 
 >0.  I have also tried

	set sidebar_format = '%B%* %?N%N'

to the same effect.  The mail_check_stats variable is set as it is 
supposed to be.

This is with Mutt 2.1.5 (see below).  The same seems to happen with Mutt 
1.13.2, so I really think that I have messed up, but I do not see where.

Thanks in advance for looking at this.

Kind regards,
         -michael

 > mutt -v
Mutt 2.1.5 (31b18ae9) (2021-12-30)
Copyright (C) 1996-2021 Michael R. Elkins and others.
Mutt comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `mutt -vv'.
Mutt is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type `mutt -vv' for details.

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Using built-in specs.
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gcc version 9.3.0 (Ubuntu 9.3.0-17ubuntu1~20.04)

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'--infodir=\\\${prefix}/share/info' '--sysconfdir=/etc' 
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