On 020630, at 12:03:38, Rob 'Feztaa' Park wrote > Alas! Lee J. Moore spake thus: > > Is this possible or impossible? ... > > If, in my > > index_format, I have this: > > > > `~/bin/maildir-count ~/Maildir/%f` > > > > ...it's actually, ~/Maildir/%f and *not* ~/Maildir/submaildir > > that's being passed to the bash script. > > Well, yeah. The backticks are being evaluated when mutt starts, not when > viewing a folder. So of course, %f cannot be expanded because mutt can't > possibly know what it is.
It is possible to delay evaluation of the backticks, using single quotes instead of double quotes. (I don't know, and have tried, if this will help in this case). -- David Ellement
