On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 11:51:40AM -0700, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
> Karl Voit wrote:
> > After renaming, I want to invoke my editor, make my manual changes
> > to the email body and after quitting the editor, mutt should take
> > over again.
> >
> > However, when I rename TMPFILENAME to muttfilen
Hi Cameron!
Cameron Simpson (c...@zip.com.au) wrote:
> 1: Why not just take care to make the temp file in the same
> directory as mutt's temp file?
>
> 2: Why not just rewrite the muttfile? Mutt isn't touching it.
Right. Very valid questions.
So far, I am only working on a proof of concept unt
On 17May2014 23:59, Karl Voit wrote:
Mike Glover (mglo...@pobox.com) wrote:
Have you tried something like:
try:
os.rename(TMPFILENAME, muttfilename)
except Exception, e:
log.write("Rename failed: %s" % e)
That rename call is almost certainly failing, and this would
at least tell you wh
On 2014-05-17, Karl Voit wrote:
> I thought that mutt has a "weird" method of tracking changes to the
> tempfile.
Mutt checks the modification time on the temp file before it runs
the editor, then checks the modification time again when the editor
exits. If the modification time hasn't changed,
Hi Mike!
Mike Glover (mglo...@pobox.com) wrote:
> Have you tried something like:
>
> try:
> os.rename(TMPFILENAME, muttfilename)
> except Exception, e:
> log.write("Rename failed: %s" % e)
>
> That rename call is almost certainly failing, and this would
> at least tell you why...
Absol
Have you tried something like:
try:
os.rename(TMPFILENAME, muttfilename)
except Exception, e:
log.write("Rename failed: %s" % e)
That rename call is almost certainly failing, and this would
at least tell you why...
-mg
(Also, what OS is this on?)
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 06:19:32PM +020
Karl Voit wrote:
> After renaming, I want to invoke my editor, make my manual changes
> to the email body and after quitting the editor, mutt should take
> over again.
>
> However, when I rename TMPFILENAME to muttfilename, mutt takes over
> the process again. This skips the editor part completely
Hi!
For a works-for-me-hack[1], I need to write a Python wrapper-script
for the editor (vim at my side).
The wrapper basically parses the temporary file which was created by
mutt (muttfilename), creates a new temporary file with modified
content (TMPFILENAME), and currently tries to replace muttf
