Re: I want a different sort of macro

2000-05-24 Thread Greg Matheson
On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 08:52:07PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Byrial Jensen proclaimed on mutt-users that: But macros work! Just what the doctor ordered. So we can use editor macros to change mailboxes to those folders with long names that are so hard to type, rather than

I want a different sort of macro

2000-05-23 Thread Chris Green
I want to be able to have macros that will expand to such things as domain names which can be used anywhere. For example I send a lot of mail to *different* users at both my work domain (kbss.bt.co.uk) and my home domain (isbd.demon.co.uk). It would be nice if I could set up (two character?)

Re: I want a different sort of macro

2000-05-23 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Chris Green proclaimed on mutt-users that: I want to be able to have macros that will expand to such things as domain names which can be used anywhere. For example I send a lot of mail to *different* users at both my work domain (kbss.bt.co.uk) and Never tried this - but you could set up

Re: I want a different sort of macro

2000-05-23 Thread Chris Green
On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 06:47:16PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Chris Green proclaimed on mutt-users that: I want to be able to have macros that will expand to such things as domain names which can be used anywhere. For example I send a lot of mail to *different* users at both my

Re: I want a different sort of macro

2000-05-23 Thread Raju Kurunkad Vasudevan
On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 06:47:16PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: Chris Green proclaimed on mutt-users that: I want to be able to have macros that will expand to such things as domain names which can be used anywhere. For example I send a lot of mail to

Re: I want a different sort of macro

2000-05-23 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Chris Green proclaimed on mutt-users that: It doesn't seem to work, I tried:- setenv dmn "@isbd.demon.co.uk" in csh (which we use at work here) and then ran mutt. Entering $dmn as part of an address didn't get expanded. You _can_ set unqualified addresses to be suffixed with a domain in

Re: I want a different sort of macro

2000-05-23 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Raju Kurunkad Vasudevan proclaimed on mutt-users that: or you can use abbreviations in ur editor for eg. in vim you can set inorea isbd [EMAIL PROTECTED] inorea kbss [EMAIL PROTECTED] As I pointed out in my prev post on this thread (which hasn't yet made it to the list flaky sendmail $%$^%)

Re: I want a different sort of macro

2000-05-23 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 02:00:34PM +0100, Chris Green wrote: - I want to be able to have macros that will expand to such things as - domain names which can be used anywhere. For example I send a lot of - mail to *different* users at both my work domain (kbss.bt.co.uk) and - my home domain

Re: I want a different sort of macro

2000-05-23 Thread Byrial Jensen
On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 14:00:34 +0100, Chris Green wrote: I want to be able to have macros that will expand to such things as domain names which can be used anywhere. For example I send a lot of mail to *different* users at both my work domain (kbss.bt.co.uk) and my home domain

Re: I want a different sort of macro

2000-05-23 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Byrial Jensen proclaimed on mutt-users that: Environment variables are expanded in commands, like the macro command below, but not in Mutt's line editor. But macros work! macro editor \$dmn $dmn Just what the doctor ordered. Thanks!!! -- Suresh Ramasubramanian | sureshr at staff.juno.com I

Re: I want a different sort of macro

2000-05-23 Thread Chris Green
On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 03:53:10PM +0200, Byrial Jensen wrote: On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 14:00:34 +0100, Chris Green wrote: I want to be able to have macros that will expand to such things as domain names which can be used anywhere. For example I send a lot of mail to *different* users at