On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 11:05:17AM -0500, David Champion wrote:
> * On 24 Jun 2011, XeCycle wrote: 
>> Hello, I've been using mutt for several months, and I like
>> it.
>> 
>> However I'm an Emacs fan, so I tried Gnus, but failed... it
>> really is not a mail client. But Gnus can be easily extended
>> with Emacs Lisp, which is a killer feature compared to mutt.
>> AFAIK I think mutt can only execute shell commands via
>> `command`. I think it'd be nice to integrate some language
>> to muttrc, thus making customization easier. (I prefer perl
>> for this task~)
> 
> No, this is not currently possible.  It has been discussed but is
> not on the roadmap for development.

So it not for this very mutt... Well, a fork will be
appreciated. I don't think I'm capable of this, I've never
wrote something in C. Any active developers interested in
this?

> You can produce your configuration programmatically in any way you like
> though.  For example, if "make-muttrc" is a program whose stdout is a
> valid muttrc, you can make a ~/.muttrc that looks like:
> 
> source "make-muttrc |"
> 

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