On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 04:45:00PM +0100, Peter P. wrote:
folder-hook . 'macro pager d "<save-message>=Trash \r"
[...]
Is there a way to incoorporate the status/flag of a message as
conditional for the above key binding to only allow saving to trash if
the message is not marked as 'deleted'?
You might want to investigate the 'trash' patch, which is commonly
already applied to packaged versions of mutt.
http://cedricduval.free.fr/mutt/patches/#trash
If you don't have the patch and don't want to build mutt to apply it,
there are not a lot of good options. The main problem is there's no way
I know of to do general conditional logic ("if message isn't marked as
deleted, save to trash, otherwise do nothing") directly in a macro.
The only conditional logic I know of is tag-prefix-cond, but I can't
think of a way to use that for your end.
You can use backticks to move some of the conditional logic to a shell
script. You would need a macro that would pipe a message to save it in
a known location, then use :push with backticks to call a program that
read the email in that location, then either emitted the command to save
the message or a noop depending on whether the email's Message-Id was in
a cache.
It would look something like this:
macro index d '<pipe-message>cat > /tmp/message.txt<enter>\
:push `/path/to/script.sh`<enter>' "Save to trash folder"
/path/to/script.sh would:
1) read /tmp/message.txt and extract the Message-Id
2) check to see if the Message-Id was in the cache
3) if not, print '<save-message>=Trash<enter><enter>' and add the Id to
the cache
If the message was in the cache, the script would do nothing, causing
the macro to do nothing further.
Pretty convoluted, and race-prone since you have to save the message in
a fixed location. There might be further tricks to remove that
particular limitation, but I've procrastinated enough today.
--
Ed Blackman
