Auto jump to next mailbox from pager

[Christian Ebert]

* googly.negotiator862 at aceecat.org on Monday, December 30, 2024 
* at 19:17:13 -0800:
> On Mon, Dec 30, 2024 at 11:35:42PM +0000, Christian Ebert wrote:
>>> is there a way to make the command which moves to the next new or
>>> unread message in the pager (bound to Tab key in the pager keymap)
>>> go to the next mailbox with new messages (or unread, but that's
>>> not too important) when there are no more in the current mailbox?
> 
>> Not exactly what you want, but did you try the next-unread-mailbox
>> function?
> 
> Hmmm. I knew there was *some* command like that, I did not remember
> it or how to find it this time. Thank you.
> 
> However, it is listed as an available (not actual) binding in index
> mode. Would it work to bind it in pager mode?

For me/my mutt version it is listed in the manual for pager mode 
as well.

You can also call `help` in the pager to check.

> As I wrote in the other subthread: the whole point of this question is
> that I want to avoid dropping into index mode when I run out of new
> and / or unread messages in the current mailbox, and jump straight to
> reading the first interesting message in the next mailbox that
> contains one.

This in muttrc works definitely for me[tm]:

bind index,pager	<Esc>m		next-unread-mailbox

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