=> On [2011-11-08 12:03:50 -0500]: Ed Blackman Said: > On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 02:13:05PM +0100, Gregor Zattler wrote: > >It's not possible to change the index format for individual > >emails in the index but you can colour different email entries > >differently. > > Actually, it is. If you set index_format to a shell command that > ends with a pipe, that Mutt will run that shell command for each > message and use the output as the actual index_format. If you pass > index_format expandos as arguments, Mutt will pass the expanded > string. The shell command could then use that to emit different > formats for different messages. > > For example, I have a script called format_date, and have this in > .muttrc: > set index_format="/path/to/format_date '%[%s]' '%<%s>' |" This really is a good idea. I want to set index_format for different type mails like: new, deleted, replied, signed, encrypted ... But I do not know how to use those value like ~N ~R ~D ~g ~G etc. Do you know how to pass them to script ? > > The script emits a different date format for each message in the > index depending on how old it is: ' 6:41pm' if less than a day, ' > Thu 6pm' if more than a day but less than a week, ' Jan 20' if more > than a week but less than 30 days, and '01/20/11' if more than 30 > days. See http://marc.info/?l=mutt-users&m=129556814118983 and the > thread that leads up to it. > > A different program could be written to examine the message flags in > '%Z' instead of the time, and output different formats depending on > those flags. The script in the message linked above could serve as a > starting point, though the middle part where it's doing the date > calculations would need to be replaced with flag comparisons. > > I don't have time to experiment with creating a full solution for the > original poster, but hopefully this will point someone in the right > direction. > > -- > Ed Blackman
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