On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 10:13:40PM -0600, lee wrote: > On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 12:04:12PM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: > > > Get rid of the semicolon and retry. Mutt aborts macros when something > > goes wrong, which was probably the semicolon. Remember, the macro is as > > if you have _typed_ it all. There's no semicolon needed before the next > > thing > > you type:-) > > Ah, that makes sense. It's basically working now, but it still > displays the currently selected message. It seems to do that after the > first <enter>. If I try without the second <enter>, it still displays > the message and leaves the second part of the macro in the command > line so that I have to press enter myself. What might be causing that? > > Do I need to escape the '*' in "unmailboxes *"? It would be logical > that I should ... Hm, it works when the '*' is escaped, but still > displays the current message. > > > macro index .a "<enter-command>unmailboxes *<enter> \ > <enter-command>mailboxes \`mutt-mb -line 4 > ~/Mail\`<enter>"
It's the space that you have in there. That space is just like you hitting the space bar while sitting in the index (since after the first <enter> there is command being constructed). -- Brandon Sandrowicz
