Re: Does mutt have any concept of "where I am now"?
On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 09:04:20AM -0500, Matt Okeson-Harlow wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 03:36:39PM +0200, Kai Grossjohann wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 09:35:39AM +0100, Chris G wrote:
> >
> > > However, taking thought, it should be possible to auto-generate the
> > > folder-hook commands without to much difficulty a simple shell script
> > > using 'find' starting at /home/chris/Mail would do what I want and you
> > > can then use `run the script` in muttrc.
> >
> > It seems the following does the trick in my environment:
> >
> > find Mail -type d | while read d; do test -d "$d/cur" && echo $d; done
> >
> > I guess I could just replace "echo $d" with a command that prints the
> > entire .muttrc line.
> >
> > Kai
>
> I swiped a bit of code from someone else to build my mailboxes list, you may
> be able to modify it to suit your needs:
>
> http://technomage.net/dotfiles/muttrc/mailboxes.html
>
> mailboxes ! + `\
> for file in ~/Maildir/.*; do \
> if [ -d $file ]; then \
> box=$(/usr/bin/basename "$file"); \
> if [ ! "$box" = '.Spam' \
> -a ! "$box" = '.Trash' \
> -a ! "$box" = '.junk' \
> -a ! "$box" = '.' \
> -a ! "$box" = '..' ]; then \
> echo -n "\"+$box\" "; \
> fi; \
> fi; \
> done`
This presupposes the "extended Maildir" layout, I think. My directory
layout is that I've just got a directory with subdirs, and at various
places in the hierarchy there are normal Maildirs.
Kai