On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 08:00:41PM -0600, Michael Herman wrote: > On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 03:53:01AM -0500, David Yitzchak Cohen wrote: > >On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 04:27:31PM +0000, Chris Green wrote: > > > >>On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 10:13:31AM -0600, Michael Herman wrote: > >>> On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 09:50:16AM +0000, Chris Green wrote: > >>> >Is there any way one can have 'user' variables in a .muttrc file? > >>> > > >>> >It would be nice to be able, for example, to set a variable to contain > >>> >a list of all the mailing lists one is subscribed to and then to use > >>> >it in 'lists', 'subscribe' and 'mailboxes' commands. At present I > >>> >can't see any easy way to avoid repeating the list (OK, I could put > >>> >them in a file and use `cat listsfile` but this does seem a bit > >>> >clumsy). > >>> > > >>> > >>> How different is it to keep them in a file vs. a variable in the > >>muttrc? I > >>> used to have my mailboxes list created on the fly using a shell script > >>which > >>> was executed from within my muttrc. > > > >Why do you say "used to?" What do you do now? > > > > I statically create the mailboxes list. Since I'm not signing up for a > lists > and deleting them, the static list is easier. What do you do, though, when you DO subscribe to a new list? Doesn't it become a big operation updating your config? - 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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