Re: Getting current folder name

[Louis LeBlanc]

You might get what you are looking for from Gregor Hoffleit's patch in
a message posted earlier today.  I will attach it at the end.

L
On 07/26/01 11:44 AM, Kai Weber sat at the `puter and typed:
> Hi,
> 
> I am searching for a way to get the current selected folder for
> scripting. I want something like this:
> 
> folder-hook .  source $MATCHED_FOLDER.rc
> 
> Depending on what folder I entered, I want to know what folder that
> was. Maybe storing the wohle path in a shell variable, something like
> that.
> 
> Kai.
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On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 03:14:28PM +0200, Gregor Hoffleit wrote:
> echo -ne "\033]2;MUTT - $MBOX\007" 1>&2
> 
> I started with a "folder-hook . source ~/bin/mutt-xtitle" where
> mutt-xtitle was a shell script with a command like the one above. That
> somehow worked, but I haven't found any way to detect the name of the
> mbox that's currently opened, and to pass this name to the shell script.

I think I may have found a solution for this idea.  I patched mx.c to
set the current folder in the environment (attached).  Then I created a
script which does something similar:

#!/bin/sh
echo -ne  "\033]2;MUTT - $MUTTMAILBOX\007"

However, I couldn't get a folder-hook like the one you suggest to work.
Instead I had to do:

folder-hook . 'push !~/bin/mutt-xterm-title\n'

Is there a better way to do that?  Unfortunately that interferes with
the typing of my imap password.  I don't like storing the password in
the configuration file, but at least it works.

- Peter

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--- mx.c~   Thu Jul 26 10:37:37 2001
+++ mx.cThu Jul 26 10:40:19 2001
@@ -727,6 +727,9 @@
   }
 
   unset_option (OPTFORCEREFRESH);
+
+  setenv("MUTTMAILBOX", path, 1 );
+
   return (ctx);
 }
 

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Re: Getting current folder name

[Greg Matheson]

On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Kai Weber wrote:

> Hi,

> I am searching for a way to get the current selected folder for
> scripting. I want something like this:

> folder-hook .  source $MATCHED_FOLDER.rc

> Depending on what folder I entered, I want to know what folder that
> was. 

While you're doing that, find out what the name of the
currently-edited (or last edited) message is ;-)

That is to say, I don't think you can do that. These would have
to be environmental variables set by mutt, and I don't think mutt
sets any of these. 

However, you can use "-" to return to the previous folder on the
 command, so perhaps you could use that in .muttrc,
like you can use "!" to set mailboxes.


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Getting current folder name

[Kai Weber]

Hi,

I am searching for a way to get the current selected folder for
scripting. I want something like this:

folder-hook .  source $MATCHED_FOLDER.rc

Depending on what folder I entered, I want to know what folder that
was. Maybe storing the wohle path in a shell variable, something like
that.

Kai.
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