On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 05:54:23AM -0700, li...@ifohancroft.com wrote: > Hi, > > I am using an index-format-hook inside of index_format, to change the way > the date column is displayed based on how old the email is. > > My current setting is the following: > > # ID, Attachments, Flags, Subject, Correspondent, Date > set index_format = "%4C %?X?📎& > ?%-1.1@replied@%-2.2@encrypted@%-1.1@flagged@ %-92.92s > %-64.64@correspondent@ %* %10@date@" > > index-format-hook date "~d<1d" "%[%H:%M]" # If it's from today - I only want > the time > index-format-hook date "~d<1w" "%[%d %a]" # If it's from this week - I only > want the day and the date > index-format-hook date "~d<1y" "%[%b %d]" # If it's from this year, I only > want the date and the month > index-format-hook date "~A" "%[%d/%m/%Y]" # If it's from a past year I only > want the date, the month and the year > > The rest works as I want it to and as I expect it to, besides the week > pattern. If any email is from the last seven days, it gets caught by the > week pattern. I don't want that. I want only emails from the current week to > get caught by the week pattern, not all emails from the last 7 days. > > Here's what is currently happening: > > Today is Tuesday, August 31st. In my email, currently, the oldest email > being caught by the week pattern is from Wednesday, August 25th. > > Here's what I want to be happening: > > Today is Tuesday, August 31st. In my email, the oldest email that should be > getting caught by the week pattern should be from Monday, August 30th. > > Is there another week pattern or another pattern in general, that I can use > to make that happen or perhaps a way to make the current pattern work like > this? > > Best Regards, > IFo Hancroft
Perhaps you could use an actual date, and cron a weekly update to your .muttrc file (and not leave mutt running for too long). cheers, raf
