Re: folder-hook pattern param

2015-07-26 Thread Kevin J. McCarthy
Ian Zimmerman wrote: > What I ended up doing (after spending several days patching the source > with debug prints just to understand WTH was happening) was: > > folder-hook .*^/home/itz/foo/.* "my_hdr X-itz-real-home-foo: yes" Another workaround which might be less distasteful would be to use par

Re: folder-hook pattern param

2015-07-21 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2015-07-21 10:15 +0200, Michael Tatge wrote: > folder-hooks use substring matches. Unanchored regexp matches, to be more precise. > ^ is a shortcut for the current mailbox. It's not BOL here. Do you see how these 2 facts together make it hard to construct a meaningful pattern, if you're worr

Re: folder-hook pattern param

2015-07-21 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 15.07.15 13:00, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > Let us further assume the following is set globally: > > set folder=~/Mail > > (I can neither confirm nor deny that this is in fact the case :) Try: :set ? folder Here, that gives: folder="~/mail" due to: $ grep folder .muttrc set folder="~/mail" E

Re: folder-hook pattern param

2015-07-21 Thread Michael Tatge
I should read more carefully. * On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 10:15AM +0200 I (tatg...@gmail.com) muttered: > * On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 01:00PM -0700 Ian Zimmerman (i...@buug.org) muttered: > > Which of the following will fire when entering /home/itz/foobar/inbox ? ^

Re: folder-hook pattern param

2015-07-21 Thread Michael Tatge
Ian, * On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 01:00PM -0700 Ian Zimmerman (i...@buug.org) muttered: > It is not clear from the manual against what the folder-hook command > matches the given pattern. folder-hooks use substring matches. > Let's say my folders are under /home/itz/foobar/ , and /home/itz/Mail is > a

folder-hook pattern param

2015-07-15 Thread Ian Zimmerman
It is not clear from the manual against what the folder-hook command matches the given pattern. Let's say my folders are under /home/itz/foobar/ , and /home/itz/Mail is a symbolic link to foobar. Let us further assume the following is set globally: set folder=~/Mail (I can neither confirm nor d