+<sect1>Using the sidebar<label id="sidebar">
+<p>
+The sidebar, a feature specific to Mutt-ng, allows you to use a mailbox listing
+which looks very similar to the ones you probably know from GUI mail clients.
+The sidebar lists all specified mailboxes, shows the number in each
+and highlights the ones with new email
+Use the following configuration commands:
+<tscreen><verb>
+set sidebar_visible="yes"
+set sidebar_width=25
+</verb></tscreen>
+
+If you want to specify the mailboxes you can do so with:
+<tscreen><verb>
+set mbox='=INBOX'
+mailboxes INBOX \
+ MBOX1 \
+ MBOX2 \
+ ...
+</verb></tscreen>
+
+You can also specify the colors for mailboxes with new mails by using:
+<tscreen><verb>
+color sidebar_new red black
+color sidebar white black
+</verb></tscreen>
+
+The available functions are:
+<tscreen><verb>
+sidebar-scroll-up Scrolls the mailbox list up 1 page
+sidebar-scroll-down Scrolls the mailbox list down 1 page
+sidebar-next Hilights the next mailbox
+sidebar-next-new Hilights the next mailbox with new mail
+sidebar-previous Hilights the previous mailbox
+sidebar-open Opens the currently hilighted mailbox
+</verb></tscreen>
+
+Reasonable key bindings look e.g. like this:
+<tscreen><verb>
+bind index \Cp sidebar-prev
+bind index \Cn sidebar-next
+bind index \Cb sidebar-open
+bind pager \Cp sidebar-prev
+bind pager \Cn sidebar-next
+bind pager \Cb sidebar-open
+
+macro index B ':toggle sidebar_visible^M'
+macro pager B ':toggle sidebar_visible^M'
+</verb></tscreen>
+
+You can then go up and down by pressing Ctrl-P and Ctrl-N, and
+switch on and off the sidebar simply by pressing 'B'.
+