[Mutt] #3438: naming scheme for recalled draft tempfiles
#3438: naming scheme for recalled draft tempfiles
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Reporter: balderdash | Owner: brendan
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone:
Component: IMAP | Version: 1.5.20
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This is about mutt's interaction with Vim, but if anything should be
changed in response to this, it's on mutt's end. Vim automatically
detects filenames that start with 'mutt' and end with any six characters
that are either alphanums or - or _, and declares their filetype to be
"mail". I am guessing that this is because at least on IMAP, when one
recalls a postponed message, mutt downloads it and names the tempfile in
tmpdir 'mutt' plus six chars. Therefore, Vim will set the filetype to
mail when you edit a recalled draft message. Wonderful.
Annoying side-effect: a mutt config file named, e.g., 'muttmacros', gets
declared by Vim to be mail, which automatically sets annoying things
(especially if one has added special autocommands for the mail filetype,
like linebreaking stuff). The filetype *should* be "muttrc". In that
file, one might have all of ones macros separated out from the muttrc.
This happens to any mutt+6char filename, like muttrchook, muttemails,
mutthooksrc, muttsource, muttimaprc, etc.
Now this can be avoided by not using those filenames, but as a matter of
principle, mutt ought to name the recalled-draft-tempfiles according to
some other system that's unlikely to get trampled on by a user's "normal"
config filename. Why not the usual tempfile naming system "mutt-hostname-
bunchofnumbers"? Or 'mutt' plus 18 chars instead of 6?
BTW, setting a Vim modeline in those files to override Vim's behavior does
not work.
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Ticket URL: <http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3438>
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