Re: pattern aliases

[dv1445@xxxxxxxxx]

Thus spake Michael Hendricks [10/11/07 @ 21.19.15 -0600]:
> I was unable to find an answer to this question on the wiki, in the
> manual or in the mailing list archives.  Is it possible to create
> aliases for commonly used patterns?  For instance, when I begin working
> on project "foo", I often start by limiting my messages to something
> like "(~f example.org | ~f sample.com) ~s foo !~s PATCH"  It gets
> tedious to type that each time.  I'd like to put something like this in
> my .muttrc
> 
>     pattern_alias foo (~f example.org | ~f sample.com) ~s foo !~s PATCH
> 
> and then just limit my messages to the pattern "foo".  Is something
> similar possible?

I just tried this:

macro editor *foo "some stuff here"

and it expanded after I hit 'l' for limit.  Maybe that's not so elegant, but it 
seems to work just fine.

-G