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On Tuesday, April 21 at 10:50 PM, quoth Zhengquan Zhang:
> 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"
>
>> macro generic G ...etc...
>
> I tried version 1
>
> macro generic G "<shell-escape>/usr/bin/getmail -v<enter>" \
> "Invoke Getmail"
>
> in index mode it would say
> "POP host is not defined."
*generic* mode is like setting up the default. If there's another
binding specific to index mode or pager mode or whatever mode, that
other binding will override the generic mode settings.
> My question would be why version 2 works in 3 modes but version 1
> does not work in index mode?
The key bit of information that you're missing is that "default"
keybindings also override generic keybindings. Think about it like an
overlay: you have a set of keybindings for "generic" and you have a
set of bindings for "index" (including the default index-specific
bindings). When you're in an index and you press a key, first it
checks the "index" layer (including all the default index bindings),
and then if none is found, it checks the generic layer.
By default, the G key in the index layer triggers the internal mail
fetcher.
Unfortunately, there's no real "unbind" function, so you can't force
the index layer to pass G on to the generic layer.
At least, that's the way that I understand it; I may be wrong.
~Kyle
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