Esteemed mutt users, I would like to be able to use the current folder name as an argument to arbitrary commands. I've read various wikis and forum postings about how "^" can be used in certain contexts (like setting record) to give the current folder name (as of 1.5.10 I believe), but this has not worked in the commands I'm trying to do.
I'm using this to set up some mail archiving. Here's what I tried first: set my_archdir="/mnt/data/storage/mail/boxes" #the path to the directory which will contain my archive dirs macro index,pager S "<save-message>$my_archdir/^<enter>" This did not work (it treats the "^" literally), which doesn't particularly surprise me since "^" looks more like a magic symbol than a real variable. The next thing I tried was putting the current directory in a variable as a folder-hook, which also did not work: folder-hook . set my_curdir="^" macro index,pager S "<save-message>$my_archdir/$my_curdir<enter>" The error mutt gives (/mnt/data/storage/mail/boxes is not a mail box) indicates that my_curdir is empty. Does the "^" get replaced with the blank string when muttrc is first read and there is no "current" mailbox? I would have expected the set command to be reevaluated each time I switch into a new folder. That said, even when I run 'set my_curdir="^"' in mutt after muttrc has been read, my_curdir is still empty. If 'set record="^"' works to get the current folder name, why doesn't it work to put the current folder name in a user variable, or am I making a stupid mistake? If not, how does one get the current folder name in a variable which can be used in various places? Mutt version information: Mutt 1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Copyright (C) 1996-2007 Michael R. Elkins and others. Mutt comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `mutt -vv'. Mutt is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; type `mutt -vv' for details. System: Linux 2.6.26-gentoo-r4 (i686) ncurses: ncurses 5.6.20061217 (compiled with 5.6) Compile options: -DOMAIN -DEBUG +HOMESPOOL -USE_SETGID +USE_DOTLOCK +DL_STANDALONE -USE_FCNTL +USE_FLOCK -USE_INODESORT -USE_POP -USE_IMAP -USE_SMTP -USE_GSS -USE_SSL_OPENSSL -USE_SSL_GNUTLS -USE_SASL -HAVE_GETADDRINFO -HAVE_REGCOMP +USE_GNU_REGEX +HAVE_COLOR +HAVE_START_COLOR +HAVE_TYPEAHEAD +HAVE_BKGDSET +HAVE_CURS_SET +HAVE_META +HAVE_RESIZETERM -CRYPT_BACKEND_CLASSIC_PGP -CRYPT_BACKEND_CLASSIC_SMIME -CRYPT_BACKEND_GPGME -EXACT_ADDRESS -SUN_ATTACHMENT +ENABLE_NLS -LOCALES_HACK +HAVE_WC_FUNCS +HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET +HAVE_LANGINFO_YESEXPR +HAVE_ICONV -ICONV_NONTRANS -HAVE_LIBIDN +HAVE_GETSID +USE_HCACHE -ISPELL SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail" MAILPATH="Maildir" PKGDATADIR="/usr/share/mutt" SYSCONFDIR="/etc/mutt" EXECSHELL="/bin/sh" MIXMASTER="mixmaster" To contact the developers, please mail to <mutt-...@mutt.org>. To report a bug, please visit http://bugs.mutt.org/. patch-1.5.16.sidebar.20070704.txt Thanks much, -- Noah Sheppard Assistant Computer Resource Manager Taylor University CSE Department nshep...@cse.taylor.edu
