Re: macro for mailman moderation?
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 12:07:09PM -0500, David Champion wrote:
> * On 2006.07.26, in <20060726165617.GB25405@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> * "William Yardley" <mutt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > 1. use <enter-command> instead of ":".
> >
> > Does that actually make a difference?
>
> Not to you, but perhaps to others who use your macro. :)
>
> > It fails at <send-message> - for some reason, in the attachment viewer
> > screen, <send-message> gets interpreted as "<save-entry>end-message" (at
> > least after <reply> fails).
>
> This happens because the instructions immediately before <send-message>
> behave in a way that you haven't predicted -- probably a failure case is
> prompting you for something. Mutt then reads < as the response to the
> prompt and continues, interpreting "s" as <save-entry> and "end-message>"
> as the response to the save prompt.
Yeah - I figured it was something like that. Is there any way to deal
with failures inside macros?
Here's a case for anyone who says mutt doesn't need some sort of minimal
scripting language.
w