I've just started using mutt, and haven't got all the config stuff
worked out, which is why this message is coming from elm :-)
Anyway, I'd REALLY like to be able to change directories while inside
mutt; that's one of the things I've found wanting in elm that I hoped
mutt would remedy. I looked through the help and doc files without
finding it, then looked through the archives and found the following
two messages relevant:
> * From: Albert Schueller
> * Subject: [Q] Change current working directory?
> * Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 08:54:37 -0500
> _________________________________________________________________
>
>How do I change the current working directory from within a running mutt?
>(or the default save location in the attachment menu)
Hear, hear! Unfortunately, there seems to have been no followup to
Albert's question.
> * From: Jim Toth
> * Subject: Re: Specifiying directory to save attachments.
> * Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2000 21:25:57 -0800
> _________________________________________________________________
>
>On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 08:43:46PM -0500, John P. Verel
>([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said:
>> I'd like to be able to save attachments to a specific directory. I
>> don't see any way to set this up in the configuration file.
>>
>> I do, however, have Sven's sample .muttrc which has a macro ...
>>
>> So, two questions. Is there a way to do this in the .muttrc?
>
>Other than Sven's way, not that I know of. Probably because that
>works fine. :-)
>
>...
>
>So if you wanted to save the files to, say, the directory
>~/mutt/RTFM
>you would change the the macro above to
>
>macro attach s S^A~/mutt/RTFM/
That's great, if I want to edit .muttrc and re-start mutt every time I
want to save attachments to a different directory. But I don't; I want
to be able to change directories several times in one invocation of
mutt.
Here's why: I'm a CS professor, and most of my students turn in their
homework by e-mail. The morning after a due date, I suddenly have
dozens of e-mails full of attachments, all of which need to be saved in
different places. For example, Joe Schmoe's homework 4 (comprising half
a dozen attachments) belongs in ~/class/270/hw/hw4/jschmoe, while Jane
Doe's homework 5 (she's in a different class, which happened to have an
assignment due the same day) belongs in ~/class/344/hw/hw5/jdoe.
Am I missing a really obvious and simple way to do this?
Stephen Bloch
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.adelphi.edu/sbloch/
Math/CS Dept, Adelphi University
