Re: extract_url.pl: A Better URL Viewer
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 09:25:38AM -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
> On Thursday, March 27 at 02:22 PM, quoth Steffen Weise:
> > Just a minor flaw: when I return to index menu the status bar says
> > "Usage: set variable=yes|no". It only happens if I've called your
> > script. Any ideas about this?
>
> That's a problem that occurred with the original macro that I had on
> the page, because there was a typo in it. I've updated the webpage to
> be more correct. Here's the issue: in the macro definition, you need
> to put a backslash in front of the $'s, so that they're evaluated when
> the macro is evaluated, rather than when the macro is defined. For
> example:
>
> macro index,pager \cb "<enter-command> set my_pdsave=\$pipe_decode<enter>\
> <enter-command> unset pipe_decode<enter>\
> <pipe-message>extract_url.pl<enter>\
> <enter-command> set pipe_decode=\$my_pdsave<enter>" "get URLs"
>
> Note the \$ parts? That fixes that "set variable" problem.
Thanks for the hint, it's working error-free now! :) I haven't much
dealed with macros in mutt, yet, but I should do to get a better
understanding of it.
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Regards
Steffen