too many useless warnings

[Darac Marjal]

On 27/07/2022 13:08, Fourhundred Thecat wrote:
> Hello,
>
> when I press key that is not bound, I get following warning in the lower
> left corner:
>
>   Key is not bound.  Press '?' for help.
>
> this is actually a helpful warning/notification that tells me what is
> going on. Without it, I would be left wondering why my action is not
> being executed.
>
> However, when I press PageDown repeatedly, and land at the end of the
> page, I get a warning:
>
>   You are on the last page.
>
> In my opinion, this is absolutely useless and superfluous warning.
> Unlike the first case, this is just bombarding me with useless
> information. I can see the key is working all right, I have just pressed
> it one too many times.

How do you _know_ the key is working, though? Let's say you're paging 
down a mailbox and you press PgDn three times. On two of those presses, 
the screen updates within milliseconds, showing you more records. On the 
third press, nothing happens. So, what's going on?

  * Did you not press hard enough on the key?
  * Did you miscount the number of times you pressed the key?
  * Has your SSH connection suddenly frozen?
  * Is the IMAP server thrashing and it's still trying to read the
    headers for those next messages?
  * Or, have you just reached the end of the list and there are no more
    messages?

I'd argue that some feedback is better than none. Unless you've 
configured your index with some sort of scrollbar (or an indication that 
the cursor is on page X of Y) then I don't see how you can tell the 
difference between "mutt hasn't responded to the PgDn key yet" vs "mutt 
has done what you asked, but there was nothing to do".


>
> Can these things be configured / disabled ?
>
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