On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 02:59:31PM -0500, David T-G wrote: > ...and then Paul Brannan said... > % macro index $ ':set delete=ask-yes<enter><sync-mailbox>:set delete=no<enter>' > % > % All I get is a beep, and delete remains set to "ask-yes". > > That makes sense. Your macro sets it to ask-yes and then tries to sync > the mailbox, which will generate a y/n prompt. Instead of passing mutt > an expected value, however, you try to next give it a colon, which will > of course cause an error.
I was thinking about this last night, and it seems that this problem would easily be solved if mutt had some sort of scripting. Does it have this capability in 1.3.x? Paul