* On 31 Aug 2010, fe...@crowfix.com wrote:
>
> So here is my 'mudd' command which is used as
>
> mailboxes `~/bin/mudd`
Tangent: I don't have this exact need, but I have similar requirements
for building dynamic configuration. A trick I use is to create a script
whose output is a (partial) mutt configuration file. In your case, the
script could be a slight modification of 'mudd' which outputs:
mailboxes =folder1
mailboxes =folder2
mailboxes =folderN
...
then I source it from .muttrc as:
source "~/bin/myscript |"
The "|" at the end makes mutt execute the script and interpret its
output as if it appeared right there in .muttrc. It's very much like
using backquotes, but you can make the script much simpler because any
config command can be emitted at any time, with less need for tracking
state information or compiling arrays.
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David Champion * d...@uchicago.edu * IT Services * University of Chicago
