Volker Moell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said something to this effect on 10/18/2001:
> Rob 'Feztaa' Park wrote:
> > Also, what is the _effective_ difference between sourcing a file, and
> > writing some kind of mutt-script to toggle a bunch of options? I don't
> > actually see one :)
>
> I think: way better clearness.
Are you saying that scripting is clearer than multiple files? If
you are, I think I disagree.
> When "debugging" your mutt configuration you have to go through
> a lot of files in the worst case - I don't really like this.
When debugging, though, you shouldn't be debugging the entire
muttrc (at least not at first); you should be testing/debugging
specific parts of it, to minimize unintentional interactions, and
then integrate the new changes into the working setup.
> In bash & friends. you have the possibility to source lot's of files,
> too. But do you split off your ~/.bashrc into a dozen or more pieces?
> I don't.
$ ls -loF ~/.bash*
-rw------- 1 darren 4865 Sep 19 12:29 .bashrc
-rw------- 1 darren 30 Sep 13 14:07 .bash_logout
-rw------- 1 darren 30 Sep 13 14:07 .bash_profile
drwx------ 1 darren 512 Feb 16 2001 .bash/
-rw------- 1 darren 1444 Oct 12 08:03 .bash/functions
-rw------- 1 darren 6542 Mar 21 2001 .bash/history
-rw------- 1 darren 409 Jun 15 2000 .bash/path
-rw------- 1 darren 409 Jun 15 2000 .bash/prompt
-rw------- 1 darren 409 Jun 15 2000 .bash/ssh
All of these do what you would think they do.
Similarly:
$ ls -loF ~/.mutt*
-rw------- 1 darren 1273 Oct 1 16:17 aliases
drwx------ 2 darren 512 Sep 13 15:13 bin/
-rw------- 1 darren 1954 Oct 17 09:01 colors
-rw------- 1 darren 35523 Oct 18 10:05 fortunes
-rw------- 1 darren 933 Oct 9 14:52 lists
-rw------- 1 darren 526 Sep 20 10:08 mailcap
-rw------- 1 darren 4989 Oct 18 10:03 muttrc
-rw------- 1 darren 1487 Oct 9 14:55 scores
-rw------- 1 darren 595 Sep 13 15:41 trash
-rw------- 1 darren 1221 Oct 3 12:22 vimrc
These also all do what you would expect. If the problem is with
scoring, or coloring, for example, I know exactly which files to
fiddle with and resource. Breaking these things up greatly
simplifies debugging and trying out new things.
> When asking friends for help on some mutt questions, I would
> rather send them "my muttrc" instead of a huge tarball.
Small files are also easier to share with other people; I don't
have to remove all my work-specific aliases, for example, if I
want to post some of my config to a mailing list or put it on the
Net.
Just my thoughts.
(darren)
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