On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 10:10:00AM EST, Jeff Abrahamson wrote: > On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 10:08:56PM -0800, David Ellement wrote: > > [17 lines, 70 words, 477 characters] Top characters: noeit\ndc > > On 2004-03-03, Jeff Abrahamson wrote > > > Now, being a programmer, I'd like to be able to define a function and > > > then just have one line for each: > > > > > > condition1 do-function > > > condition2 do-function > > > condition3 do-function > > > ... > > > > > > Is anything of the sort possible in mutt config? > > > > Michael Elkins submitted a patch to mutt-dev last June which introduced > > user defined macro-functions. > > (Message-ID: <20020612225109.GA10379@xxxxxxxxxxx>) > > I've noticed this list often mention patches to solve such problems. Yeah, that seems to be "the Mutt way" (TM?) as of late. > Does this mean that the patch is included in CVS and we can expect to > see it in a future version, possibly, but not likely > I just can get the improvement sooner by > applying the patch to my copy of mutt. possibly, but not likely > Or does it mean that it is not in CVS, much more often the case > and so if I apply this patch I > will have to maintain a separate, private branch by continuing to > apply the patch? If you don't do a fresh checkout every time but instead simply update from CVS, you don't have to reapply the patch every time you update. CVS was made for this sort of stuff. > Sort of like the compressed mbox patch I've so often > read about that I gather is not a part of mutt and isn't going to be. ...or at least isn't likely to be ;-) - Dave -- Uncle Cosmo, why do they call this a word processor? It's simple, Skyler. You've seen what food processors do to food, right? Please visit this link: http://rotter.net/israel
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