On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 10:39:17PM -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > On Monday, April 6 at 09:56 PM, quoth Zhengquan Zhang: > >macro index,pager G "! /usr/bin/getmail -v \n" "Invoke getmail" > > > >to get mail from pop servers. > > While simple-looking, it's generally a better idea to call the > functions you want to use directly from your macro, rather than use > keybindings that may later change. For example, if you ever decide to > rebind the ! key, or bind the "! " combination, this macro would stop > working unexpectedly. > > Here's a better way of writing the same macro: > > macro index,pager G "<shell-escape>/usr/bin/getmail -v<enter>" \ > "Invoke Getmail" > > >But as you see the macro works only in index and pager environment. > >I also want to be able to get mail when I was in directory browser, that > >is when I was changing mailboxes. > > Easy - just add another comma: > > macro index,pager,browser G ...etc... > > OR you could try: > > macro generic G ...etc... > > But that latter would be overridden by any > index/pager/browser-specific G keybindings. > Thanks Kyle, I appreciate it so much. Zhengquan
> > ~Kyle > -- > The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from > one graveyard to another. > -- J. Frank Dobie, "A Texan in England" -- Zhengquan
