Re: use script output as regex pattern in folder-fook
On Jul 25 11:46, David Champion wrote:
> > A more elegant solution could be a config var $configdir or $scriptdir for
> > people who
> >
> > - have more then one script laying around in ~/.mutt (or wherever)
> > - don't want to put Mutt-specific scripts in a location on $PATH
>
> You also can do this in ~/.muttrc:
>
> source "~/.mutt/muttrc.py|"
>
> and generate your "real" muttrc programmatically: another way to do
> things like macros/variables and search paths, and you also get to
> automatically define hooks, lists, etc. based on the contents of your
> filesystem.
> But once again this only executes at startup -- it doesn't
> update itself continuously.
>
> If you're ambitious enough you could set mutt up to reload much of its
> configuration every time you change folders, or something. But I'm
> not sure how useful this really is for most people. :)
Wow, one could write a research paper on Mutt configuration :) The number of my
scripts and vars is greater than one but so far still manageable by hand and
some
backtick-magic here and there. Thanks!
steve