On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 05:03:39PM -0400, Ed Blackman wrote: Hi Ed,
this sounds really useful. Since I use tmux, I need to change this macro to control tmux instead but this is not such a problem. Can you provide a download link for your mairix wrappe? thx ST > On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 01:56:51PM +0200, Sebastian Tramp wrote: > >I have a question regarding macros in mutt. Currently I use these two > >macros for searching: > > > >macro generic ,f "<shell-escape>mairix " "search via mairix" > >macro generic ,,f "<change-folder><kill-line>=search<enter>" "load the > >search results mailbox" > > > >Can I optimize it in the way that after finishing the search with ,f - > >the result mailbox is automatically loaded? > > I run mutt inside screen, and use the following macro to switch to a > separate window to run a mairix query. It will open mutt on the search > folder if the query is successful. Otherwise, it will exit, which returns > me to the original screen session (mutt). > > # prompt for mairix search parameters > macro index,pager,browser ,m "\ > <enter-command> set my_wait_key=\$wait_key wait_key=no<enter>\ > <shell-escape>screen -X screen -t 'mutt search' sh -c 'mairixquery && mutt -f > =search'<enter>\ > <enter-command>set wait_key=\$my_wait_key &my_wait_key<enter>" "mairix query" > > In my case, mairixquery is a Perl script that prompts me for the mairix > search string, gives me yes or no prompts for whether to search threads or > augment previous results, and saves the most recent 100 searches so that I > can make edits if the query returns too little or way too much. > > It doesn't need to be that fancy for this strategy to work for you, assuming > you read mutt inside screen. All it has to do is let you enter mairix > command line options after the new screen has already been launched. > -- Sebastian Tramp WebID: http://sebastian.tramp.name
