I feel like this is a silly question, but here goes:
I've recently found myself toggling back and forth the "postponed" variable
to deal with either postponing messages locally (no network dependancy!) or
dealing with postponed messages in a remote IMAP mailbox for collaboration with
a mobile client (e.g. Gmail's Drafts folder).
Experience has shown there is no one right answer, I need to use one
definition of postponed sometimes, and one the other.
Ideally I'd like to bind a key to toggle between two values of a string
variable. There doesn't seem to be a good way to accomplish this -- is there a
trick?
As an alternative, I (notionally) bound ,a to :set postponed to one value,
and ,b to :set it to another. I do not love this. Both display the result (:set
?postponed\n) so I can at least see what I've done.
I realize on some level this is plea for macro/scripting language with true
conditionals, and we're not going to get there anytime soon. The last time I
had a problem of this nature in mutt I bound the macro to ! execute a perl
script that did its thing and then made use of the fact that mutt was running
under screen(1) and used screen's "slowpaste" to tell mutt to :source a
temporary file that redefined things as desired. Since my mutt isn't running
under screen anymore (although I suppose I could), this approach doesn't work,
and it was pretty janky anyhow.
I guess it's collateral, but I was surprised that I couldn't get :toggle to
work with a $my_foo variable. I guess it would not really have helped me make
progress, but seemed like it could be a building block in some more complex
scheme.
Thanks for any thoughts.
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jh...@alum.mit.edu
John Hawkinson
