"No virtual folder, aborting."

[Amanda Hickman]

I was just starting to use tagging in mutt-kz and used to be able to use the tick (`) to trigger the tag prompt until this week when suddenly it stopped working and I started seeing an error instead: "No virtual folder, aborting." -- I can't figure out what I might have done to bring this on and I can't figure out how to fix it, or even troubleshoot.

I tried asking this on Stack Exchange but so far no one has bitten:

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/273743/why-am-i-getting-no-virtual-f...

The only place I see the error is in this code: https://github.com/karelzak/mutt-kz/blob/master/curs_main.c but I can't quite decifer how I'd be triggering it with "`".

My config / setup are at https://gist.github.com/amandabee/cf7faad0a6f2afc485ee

I'm at a loss and would love any pointers you can offer me.

Thanks!
Amanda

[Chris Fleming]

On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 03:09:51PM -0700, Amanda Hickman wrote:
> I was just starting to use tagging in mutt-kz and used to be able to use the tick (`) to trigger the tag prompt until this week when suddenly it stopped working and I started seeing an error instead: "No virtual folder, aborting." -- I can't figure out what I might have done to bring this on and I can't figure out how to fix it, or even troubleshoot.
>
> I tried asking this on Stack Exchange but so far no one has bitten:
>
> http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/273743/why-am-i-getting-no-virtual-f...
>
> The only place I see the error is in this code: https://github.com/karelzak/mutt-kz/blob/master/curs_main.c but I can't quite decifer how I'd be triggering it with "`".
>
> My config / setup are at https://gist.github.com/amandabee/cf7faad0a6f2afc485ee
>
> I'm at a loss and would love any pointers you can offer me.

I noticed that in your config, you have commented out:

## set virtual_spoolfile=yes

I tried the same thing in my config and saw the same error when I went
to tag messages using `

So I think enabling virtual_spoolfile, might solve this problem. I do
note that from the file history, it doesn't look like you have ever
used a virtual spoolfile. But I have now tried this on my current
mutt (1.6) and an older installation (1.5.21) and I have needed to have
virtual spoolfile enabled on both of these.

Cheers
Chris