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re: mutt



 
ben writes: 
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 07:34:59PM -0500, dan moylan wrote: 
> > ben writes: 
> > > Can I ask why you want to do this? 
> > 
> > i'm surprised you would ask the question.  i try to save what i 
> > find useful and discard the rest. 

> The time-value tradeoff of figuring out how to do this and then 
> writing a script to make it happen is not a good one in my opinion. 

i'm sure you're right.  i just hoped it would be easy (as in 
berkeley mail). 

> As the saying goes, disk space is cheap. 

agreed. 
  
> > btw, it isn't obvious to me how to override the save function 
> > with a call to a shell script.  can this be done from within 
> > mutt? 

> No, you have to define a macro in your .muttrc for this. 
> In your .muttrc, it would go something like this: 
> macro index X <pipe-entry>~/bin/foo.sh<enter>" 
> Where X indicates the key-binding and the foo.sh bit is your script 
> name.  Actually, you probably need some additional bits in there to 
> delete the message from the current folder, etc. 
> Keyboard macros and the links for the functions you can access are 
> here: http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-3.html

thanks -- maybe when time is cheap. 

dan 

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