Re: Fcc hook simplicity?
On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 09:36:32PM +0700, Dave Patterson wrote:
> * Michael Tatge <Michael.Tatge@xxxxxx> [2006-06-11 16:27:24 +0200]:
> > I don't follow. If you use a recent mutt (1.5.X) series >>^<< references
> > the current folder.
> > So let's say all lists in under =lists, then:
> > folder-hook '=lists' 'set record="^"' will set record to =lists/foo
> > when you are in =lists/foo and =lists/bar accordingly.
> >
> Ah. The light comes on. Thank you. Now, it's time to go to bed. I'm in
> Bangkok, and we have to get up early.
Note that you need to use a hook when you are using '^', since ^
references the current folder at the time of assignment. ie. doing
this by itself:
set record="^"
won't generally do anything useful since the value of record is being
set to whatever the current folder is when that line is interpreted
(when muttrc is loaded, *not* what it is at the time when the copyself
mail is being saved. If you put this in your muttrc (with nothing else
modifying record) then you'll get record set to nothing useful. You
will not get the arguably desired effect of copyself emails being put in
whatever folder you are currently in. To do that you need to use a
folder-hook - these are triggered when you *enter* folders (at which
time ^ has a meaningful value)
I use this:
set record ="+z_sent" # default copyself folder for
batch mode
folder-hook . 'set record="+z_sent"' # default copyself folder for
interactive mode
folder-hook +list-* 'set record="^"' # use current-folder for
mailling-list copyselfs
The first line is to set a record folder for emails sent from the
command-line (by scripts etc) - since Mutt never gets to enter a folder
in such a case, the folder hooks would never get triggered and record
would never have got set.
The second line sets a default folder for folders in general, and most
importantly, resets the value when I go into a general folder after
having been in one of the 'list-*' folders. Otherwise, record would
stay pointing to whichever list-* folder I was in most recently.
The third line sets the usage of the current folder whenever I enter one
of my mailling-list folders.
(Disclaimer: I only just got this working myself, because I had
previously overlooked exactly the problem I am describing. Therefore I
might still be completely wrong! But it seems to be working for me)
Karl.