commit 11d9aa84d8a4a532a08eb18acba7d84837111d8b
parent 8782e8b6d1b244b19f2ffa7abf42965d1aabe1b0
Author: awy <awy@awy.one>
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2026 17:34:50 +0300
change readme and add binds for switching between accounts
reorder binds
Diffstat:
4 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-)
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Fork of [mutt-wizard](https://github.com/lukesmithxyz/mutt-wizard) with some add
Get this great stuff without effort:
-- A full-featured and autoconfigured email client on the terminal wibuiltth aerc
+- A full-featured and autoconfigured email client on the terminal with aerc
- Mail stored offline enabling the ability to:
* view and write emails while you're away from
the internet
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ Specifically, this wizard:
email address
- Encrypts and locally stores your password for easy remote access, accessible
only by your GPG key
-- Handles as many as nine separate email accounts automatically
- Auto-creates bindings to switch between accounts or between mailboxes
- Provides sensible defaults and an attractive appearance for the aerc email
client
@@ -61,7 +60,7 @@ A user of Arch-based distros can also install the current aerc-wizard release fr
- `pam-gnupg` - Automatically logs you into your GPG key on login so you will
never need to input your password once logged on to your system. Check the
repo and directions out [here](https://github.com/cruegge/pam-gnupg).
-- `lynx` - view HTML email in aerc.
+- `w3m` - view HTML email in aerc.
- `notmuch` - index and search mail. Install it and run `notmuch setup`, tell
it that your mail is in `~/.local/share/mail/` (although `aew` will do this
automatically if you haven't set notmuch up before). You can run it in mutt
@@ -158,55 +157,13 @@ systemctl enable --user goimapnotify@fulladdrs.service
to send mail to will suggest contacts that are in your abook.
- `urlview` - Outputs URLs in an email to your browser.
-## New stuff and improvements since the original release
-
-- `aew` is now scriptable with command-line options and can run successfully
- without any interaction, making it possible to deploy in a script.
-- `isync`/`mbsync` has replaced `offlineimap` as the backend. Offlineimap was
- error-prone, bloated, used obsolete Python 2 modules, and required separate
- steps to install the system.
-- `aew` is now an installed program instead of just a script needed to be kept in
- your mutt folder.
-- `dialog` is no longer used and the interface is simply text commands.
-- More autogenerated shortcuts that allow quickly moving and copying mail
- between boxes.
-- More elegant attachment handling. Image/video/pdf attachments without relying
- on the aerc instance.
-- abook integration by default.
-- The messy template files and other directories have been moved or removed,
- leaving a clean config folder.
-- msmtp configs moved to `~/.config/` and mail default location moved to
- `~/.local/share/mail/`, reducing mess in `~`.
-- `gopass` is used as a password manager instead of separately saving passwords.
-- Script is POSIX sh compliant.
-- Error handling for the many people who don't read or follow directions. Fewer
- errors generally.
-- Addition of a manual `man aew`
-- Now handles POP protocol via `mpop` for those who prefer it (add an account
- with the `-p` option). POP configs are still generated automatically.
-
## Help the Project!
-
- Try aerc-wizard out on weird machines and weird email addresses and report any
errors.
- Open a PR to add new server information into `domains.csv` so their users can
more easily use aerc-wizard.
-## Details for Tinkerers
-
-- The critical `aerc` files are in `~/.config/aerc/`.
-- Put whatever global settings you want in `accounts.conf`. aerc-wizard will add some
- lines to this file, which you shouldn't remove unless you know what you're
- doing, but you can move them up/down over your config lines if you need to. If
- you get binding conflict errors in mutt, you might need to do this.
-- Each of the accounts that aerc-wizard generates will have custom settings set
- in a separate file in `accounts/`. You can edit these freely if you want to
- tinker with settings specific to an account.
-- In `/usr/share/aerc-wizard` are several global config files, including
- `aerc-wizard`'s default settings. You can override this in your `muttrc` if
- you wish.
-
## Watch out for these things
- Gmail accounts need to create an
diff --git a/aew.1 b/aew.1
@@ -266,10 +266,8 @@ to move mail to the same boxes.
.TP
.B Switching between accounts
aerc-wizard can configure an unlimited number of accounts. Press
-.I ctrl-n
-to switch to next account or
-.I ctrl-p
-to switch to previous account.
+.I i
+followed by an account's number to change to that account: i2, i5, etc.
.I ctrl-b
to open a menu to select a url you want to open in your browser.
.TP
diff --git a/bin/aew b/bin/aew
@@ -133,6 +133,8 @@ prepaerc() {
[ ! -f "$accountsconf" ] && envsubst <"$aercbase" >"$accountsconf"
! grep -q "^multi-file-strategy" "$accountsconf" && envsubst <"$aercbase" >"$accountsconf"
envsubst <"$aerctemp" >>"$accountsconf"
+ sed -i "/# end of account switch binds/i\
+ i$idnum = :change-tab $fulladdr<Enter>" "$bindsconf"
chmod 600 "$accountsconf"
}
@@ -373,8 +375,40 @@ reorder() {
' "$accountsconf" >>"$tmp_out"
echo >>"$tmp_out"
done <"${tempfile}.sorted"
+ # remove duplicate blank lines
awk 'NF{blank=0} !NF{blank++} blank<2' "$tmp_out" >"$accountsconf"
rm -f "${tempfile}.clean" "${tempfile}.sorted"
+
+ # reorder account switching binds in binds.conf
+ getaccounts
+ start='# account switch binds'
+ end='# end of account switch binds'
+
+ tmp="$(mktemp)"
+ trap 'rm -f "$tmp"' EXIT
+
+ {
+ echo "$start"
+ i=1
+ # iterate over $accounts line by line
+ while IFS= read -r line; do
+ # strip the nl number + whitespace
+ acct="${line##*[[:space:]]}"
+ [ -z "$acct" ] && continue
+ printf 'i%d = :change-tab %s<Enter>\n' "$i" "$acct"
+ i=$((i + 1))
+ done <<<"$accounts"
+ echo "$end"
+ } >"$tmp"
+
+ # replace the old block in the config
+ awk -v start="$start" -v end="$end" -v repl="$tmp" '
+ $0 == start { system("cat " repl); skip=1; next }
+ $0 == end { skip=0; next }
+ !skip
+ ' "$bindsconf" >"$bindsconf.new"
+
+ mv "$bindsconf.new" "$bindsconf"
}
while getopts "rfpXlhodTYD:y:i:I:s:S:u:a:n:P:x:m:t:" o; do case "${o}" in
diff --git a/share/aerc-binds b/share/aerc-binds
@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@
<C-z> = :suspend<Enter>
O = :check-mail<Enter>
+# account switch binds
+# end of account switch binds
+
[messages]
q = :quit<Enter>
