* Rob 'Feztaa' Park <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-03-24 14:09:41 -0700]: > Alas! Rob Reid spake thus: > > If mutt could pass variables like the current folder to the environment, then > > this "mutt needs a scripting language, but no, that's bloated, and > > which one would we use?" thread would probably recur less frequently. > > I don't understand why mutt so desperately needs a scripting language. > What's wrong with the backtick evaluation that the .muttrc already has? > > I can't think of anything that can be done with a scripting language > built into the .muttrc that can't be done with a bash script being > evaluated with backticks inside the regular .muttrc. (but then again, I > haven't put _too_much_ thought into it).
I understood he doesn't want to include some scripting language in mutt. But if you want to execute some command if there are more than 10 new messages in the folder you are entering, you need some way to "tell" your backtick script how many new messages there are. I think that's what he wants. > Care to give some examples? Not really. Nicolas
