On 20Dec2012 21:55, Woody Wu <narkewo...@gmail.com> wrote:
| On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 09:29:25PM +0800, Woody Wu wrote:
| > Is the 'sourcing' means the same thing as that in bash script? I write
| > '. ~/.mail_aliases' in the .muttrc, but mutt said it's an syntax error.
|
| sorry for the stupid asking, I found out its 'source ~/.mail_aliases'.
| Please forget this question.
It is nice to see someone spelling "source" as "." in the shell. Too
many people use the new fangled long word:-)
| > On the hand, I found my .muttrc has some default alias definitions like
| > what you guy said. For example:
| >
| > alias mutt-users Mutt User List <mutt-users@mutt.org>
| >
| > I tried to use this alias by pressing <tab> after I inputted words
| > 'mutt-users' after the 'To:' header in mutt. But I still got nothing.
| > Is there something to do with my message editor? Here it is vim.
|
| This still doesn't work. I tried to remove my vimrc file and all the
| locally installed plugins. I still cannot use the <tab> :( What's wrong
| with my system?
As Christian said, vim itself is not aware of mutt stuff (unless you
tell it; I do not know how, myself).
The tab completion for aliases probably only works in the message setup.
It sounds like you have:
set autoedit=yes
set edit_headers=yes
so that mutt drops you straight into the whole message to edit. That is
how I work also. When you quit the editor, but before typing "y" to send
the message, you are in a mode showing TO and CC and Subject and
attachments etc.
At that point to can type "t" to edit the TO line or "c" to edit the CC
line and so forth. I think the <TAB> completion for aliases will word
then, editing those fields.
So:
- exit editor
- type "t" to edit to To: header
- type <TAB> to complete - having no alias it will enter the alias
menu for you to select an alias; if you type the start of an alias
it will complete, or enter to menu if ambiguous
- after editing the header, type "e" to return to editing the message
If someone knows how to write vim ":" commands to make vim do <TAB>
completion, I can probably write a short script to read a mutt alias file
(or any filter with mutt alias commands in it) and emit vim commands to
match, to go in a vimrc file somewhere. That might get to alias expansion
inside vim.
Cheers,
--
Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au>
I made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it
shorter. - Pascal
