On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 11:23:35AM -0800 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
Gary Johnson thought:
> On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 01:09:16AM +0000, Conor Daly wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 04:25:20PM -0500 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
> > Jorg Ziefle thought:
> > > I want to pipe a message from within Mutt to a Perl program, which not
> > > only processes it, but as well reads some user input from STDIN. As far
> > > as I know, the <pipe-message> command ('|') only allows to _write_ the
> > > message to STDOUT, but then returns immediately (as its name suggests).
> > >
> > > So, is there a possibilty to achieve printing to a message to an
> > > external program which is then executed _before_ returning to Mutt?
> > >
> > I've fought that fight before and AFAIK, there's no way to catch stdin
> > from mutt. It *is* possible to capture input from the current tty with
> > the $THIS_TTY variable. Just do a "read SOMETHING < $THIS_TTY" but mutt
> > handles anything that comes in on *its* tty and so this isn't possible
> > here.
>
> I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to do here. I _think_ you
> want to pipe a message to some command, then query the user for some
> parameters before processing the message, then process the message, and
> finally return to mutt. If so, then yes, you _can_ do this with mutt
> and a shell script around your external program. Here's an example
> using 'fold' just for concreteness.
>
> cat > /tmp/mutt_tmp_file # Save stdin.
> exec < /dev/tty # Redirect stdin from the terminal.
> echo "Enter page width:"
> read width
> fold -w $width < /tmp/mutt_tmp_file
> rm -f /tmp/mutt_tmp_file
>
> If you save this script as 'mutt_fold', then pipe your message from mutt
> as
>
> |mutt_fold
>
> the script will query you for the page width, then send the folded
> output to stdout. Is that what you wanted to do?
>
> Gary
>
> --
> Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] | RF Communications Product Generation Unit
> | Spokane, Washington, USA
That's the idea allright, in my case I want to check did I _actually_
attach that file that I said I attached in the outgoing mail. Now, what
is /dev/tty ? Is it different if I'm in an xterm than if I'm at a
console? I _did_ try redirecting input from whatever tty I was on at the
time but unsucessfully. It apeared to me that, since mutt was running in
the same tty, _it_ was intercepting keyboard input rather than my script.
--
Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Domestic Sysadmin :-)
