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Re: simulating "Aborted unmodified message" condition



On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 02:38:31PM -0700, Gary Johnson wrote:
> On 2006-09-11, William Yardley <mutt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > I was wondering if there's an easy way to simulate the condition for
> > "Aborted unmodified message" within a shell or perl script. 
> > 
> > I have a perl script that I use for moderating a mailman list (something
> > like: http://veggiechinese.net/mutt_mailman_approve.txt), and I want to
> > be able to 
> > 
> > (from send.c)
> > if (mtime == st.st_mtime && !msg->content->next &&
> >      query_quadoption (OPT_ABORT, _("Abort unmodified message?"))
> > 
> > Simply removing the message-file doesn't seem to work...
> > 
> > Any good examples that do something similar, or gentle pointers in the
> > right direction would be appreciated.
> > 
> > I'm thinking that just writing a patch for mutt might be easier, since
> > the macro approach is less than graceful if the macro fails in the
> > middle. There isn't any way to make the whole macro process fail if one
> > component exits, is there?
> 
>     :set editor="true"
> 
> Is that what you had in mind?

No, because I already have to set editor to be my script. I want to make
it fail after opening the message with my "editor".

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