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On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 12:02:21PM -0700, Daniel Chetlin wrote:
> Item one: letting the user know when new mail has arrived. $timeout and
> $mail_check work fine when I'm in the message index of my inbox. However, if
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You describe the functionality of a full featured mail alerting program.
Such things exist, I vaguely remember some being mentioned on the mutt
WWW pages.
If you read your mail from a serial terminal, I think it is best to
write an editor macro checking for mail.
> Is there any way to make either vim or mutt run the program automatically (or,
> even better, prompt me to ask about it) before i (quit vim|send the mail)? I
> realize that this is something of an off-topic question, but I figured while
> people are discussing useful vim variables to set, it would be OK.
Yes. Set something like (assuming linebreak is a filter, and $tmpdir is
a directory of your own)
set editor='vim %s ; linebreak %s > %s~ ; mv %s~ %s'
Hm, the %s thing appears to be bad documented in the manual ...
> to find to make that happen is setting TERM to 'xterm-mono'. Is there a single
> mutt variable that will make it always use mono, or do I have to define all of
> the color settings?
No, there is no such variable, although the slang library may support
an environment for this purpose, I don't know.
If you don't want to ever use color, just throw the color statements
out of your muttrc file. If not, probably the decision whether to use
color will be made in a shell (because mutt can't operate
conditionally), and then using xterm-mono is the simpliest solution.
Gero
