Lukas Schroeder wrote: > On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 11:12:11AM +0200, Rocco Rutte wrote: >> * Lukas Schroeder [02-07-30 23:37:57 +0200] wrote: >> > does mutt have some basic shell functionality built in? >> > i'd like to 'cd' and 'pwd', so that i can conveniently >> > store attachments where i want them - especially when i >> >> I've made a short patch adding a variable ``attach_dir'' >> which is the default location to save attachements to. If it >> is empty, mutt uses the current directory; if not the >> specified is prepended so that you can already see at the >> prompt where your files will end up. > > but i have to save all attachments into that single directory? that's > basically what i excercise now: save to ~/tmp and move the files later, > to where they should've gone in the first place...
But you can specify a path name relative to your home directory. By default, mutt suggests a file name in your home directory which you can prepend with the desired relative path. > what i have in mind is functionality similar to vim's :cd and :pwd > commands. that would make my day(s)... > this is not yet implemented, is it? That wouldn't even require a new command. IMHO it would be enough to simply let mutt "remember" the target directory of the last save operation. For example, if I have numerous attachments of some sort of data, all to be saved into the same directory "data", I would specify "data/file1.dat" as output path name, and in the next save operation mutt would suggest "data/file2.dat", i.e. remember that the last attachment was written to directory "data". There would be no need to save that information to a file as it would be sufficient to remember it during one mutt session, though it would be nice to set a default directory as with the attach_dir patch. Cheers, Joachim
