Earl Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On June 27, 2002 at 21:54, Tobias Nijweide wrote:
> 
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> > > * I have a folder where I always want to use a different '-form'
> > > option for scan. 
> > 
> > Don't have a solution for this. You could code a variant of the patches
> > I mention below, with (recursive) searching of format files in maildirs.
> 
> An alternative is to do some shell scripting (or bash functions if
> using bash) to get the desired effect.  For example, you write your
> own version of scan that checks the current folder, and then calls
> nmh's scan with the proper -form option.

Yeah...I'd thought of that, but the arg list parsing problem (that you
mentioned) is what made me want to check to see if anyone had done
a more general solution. Also, I kinda vaguely remembered that exmh had
something like this (folder-specific settings) and thought that it could
have enough general appeal to be a reasonable addition to nmh.

> ...
> To be more robust, the scripts could loop the argument list before
> hand to see if a '+folder' argument is specified and to use it
> when checking for folder specific format files.  I leave this
> as an excercise for the reader :-)

Yep.

Scott

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