Re: [PATCH] Add $status_hook for xterm title updates
* On 2007.03.05, in <20070305220556.GC28253@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
* "Brendan Cully" <brendan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I think I may have mentioned in the $xtitle thread, your patch doesn't
> handle things like %> which cause recursive invocations of
> mutt_FormatString. I think this would be easy to fix by having
Ah, I see your message now. I was away for a few days and haven't
caught up on everything yet. Still cherry-picking threads. :)
I'll check into this.
> > > This one has the potential to break quite a few things... If we
> > > want the deferred execution, we should rather think about having a
> > > configuration file syntax like double backticks or something.
> >
> > But I was never sure what this would break, even if it's perhaps not an
> > ideal solution.
>
> The only thing I can see is that it would cause problems for people
> who happen to have | at the end of some of their variable
> assignments. Thomas, did you have something else in mind?
Any thoughts from any quarters on an alternate syntax? Part of what I
like about the fmtpipe approach is that it doesn't complicate escaping
rules with an extra parse. Mutt's escaping rules are pretty hairy, more
difficult even than sh's.
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