As far as I can tell, anything in backticks inside .muttrc is evaluated
when .muttrc is first read. I was wondering if it is possible to have
'lazy evaluation' instead -- ie the shell command is evaluated when the
variable is referenced.
The reason for this is that I've an extra header as follows:
my_hdr X-BOFH-Excuse: `fortune -n 80 -s bofh-excuses | tail -1`
The header stays the same for the entire mutt session. I thought to
myself that perhaps the my_hdr was only being evaluated once, so I tried
the following instead:
send-hook . "my_hdr X-BOFH-Excuse: `fortune -n 80 -s bofh-excuses | tail -1`"
But that has the same effect, which leads me to believe that the shell
command in the backticks is only evaluated once.
The obvious solution, I guess, is to modify the $editor variable to
insert the header when I enter vim, but that fails if I re-edit the
file.
Any thoughts?
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