On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 03:53:10PM +0200, Byrial Jensen wrote:
> On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 14:00:34 +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> > I want to be able to have macros that will expand to such things as
> > domain names which can be used anywhere.  For example I send a lot of
> > mail to *different* users at both my work domain (kbss.bt.co.uk) and
> > my home domain (isbd.demon.co.uk).  It would be nice if I could set up
> > (two character?) macros that would expand to these domains rather than
> > having to type them in every time.
> 
> You can. Try for example these macros:
> 
> macro editor ?w @kbss.bt.co.uk
> macro editor ?h @isbd.demon.co.uk
> 
> > The existing macro facility doesn't help because the macros
> > are only detected at the beginning of any command.
> 
> No, editor macros are detected anywhere when you are typing in
> response to one of Mutt's prompts.
> 
Aha! 'editor' macros, I hadn't really latched on to where these work,
I must go and try this, it may well fulfil more than one need.

Thanks!

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