Refering to current message headers in mutt macros

[Suvayu Ali]

Hi Cameron,

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 08:38:45AM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 13Aug2012 23:04, Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com> wrote:
> | On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 09:24:56AM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> | > | How do I say, run that command on the current message (or pipe it)
> | > | inside the macro definition?
> | > 
> | > Use <pipe-message> to send the message to a script which writes a mutt
> | > command, and then source the resulting file.
> | 
> | Do you mean something like this:
> | 
> | "<pipe-message> <shell-cmd> > <tmp-file>; source <tmp-file>"
> 
> No, it looks like you're using the shell's "source" command.
> I imagine you want mutt doing the sourcing, since you will be writing mutt
> commands to the file. Something like:
> 
>   <pipe-message> shell-command >tempfile <enter> <enter-command>source
>   tempfile<enter>
> 
> I would have "shell-command" invoke a script of your own; that way it is
> easy to modify and your macro is simple.
> 

This was very helpful thank you.  I had some trouble figuring out how to
form the command returned by my script, I realised now I had to use
`push "string with <command> and arguments"'.

> | > Also consider joining the mutt-users list; plenty of mutters there.
> | Thanks for reminding me, I will do that soon.
> 
> Not that I have any objection to extra mutt advertising here, but your
> issues are mutt specific, not fedora specific...
> 

:) 

Thanks again,

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Suvayu

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