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Re: Exporting from alias folder



Hi,

On Sat  6 Oct 2007 16:04, Rem P Roberti wrote:
> On 2007.10.06 23:26:07 +0000, Jerry Walker wrote:
> > On Sat  6 Oct 2007 12:58, Rem P Roberti wrote:
> > > Still searching for a way to export aliases from my alias folder to Abook 
> > > via Mutt.  Anyone know how to do
> > > that?
> > 
> > Use "abook --convert .......". Try "abook --help" for more details.
> > 
> Sorry to be dense about this, but how is "abook  --convert" invoked from 
> within Mutt?  Is this something that
> has to be configured via .muttrc?

Yep. You can bind a key to a macro that runs the appropriate command. For
example I have 

macro generic <esc>a "<shell-escape>abook\n" "Run Abook"

in my .muttrc to run abook from Mutt.