renaming temporary files

[Pau]

Hello,

I have vi as my editor for composing new emails. Sometimes the
connection breaks and then I have to dig into the tmp directory where
the file was created. These files are named like

mutt-deukalion-500-10049-775496779933749571

with deukalion the hostname.

I would like to see whether there is a way to give these files another
name. Something like

subject_date

with

subject: the subject of the email
date: something like date '+%h_%d_%Y_%Hh%Mmin'

So that a temp. file would look like

Meeting_on_saturday_Feb_17_2011_16h45min

If the subject of that email had been Meeting on saturday

Probably adding the seconds would be better to avoid conflicts.

thanks

Re: renaming temporary files

[David Haguenauer]

Hi Pau,

* Pau vim.u...@googlemail.com, 2011-02-17 16:48:16 Thu:
 Sometimes the connection breaks and then I have to dig into the tmp
 directory where the file was created.

You can probably work around this problem by running mutt from within
screen. Then you only need reattach to your screen session when your
connection comes back up: Mutt and Vim will be just in the state you
left them.

http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/

-- 
David Haguenauer


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Re: renaming temporary files

[Monte Stevens]

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 04:48:16PM +0100, Pau wrote:
 Hello,
 
 I have vi as my editor for composing new emails. Sometimes the
 connection breaks and then I have to dig into the tmp directory where
 the file was created. These files are named like
 
 mutt-deukalion-500-10049-775496779933749571
 
 with deukalion the hostname.
 
 I would like to see whether there is a way to give these files another
 name. Something like
 
 subject_date
 
 with
 
 subject: the subject of the email
 date: something like date '+%h_%d_%Y_%Hh%Mmin'
 
 So that a temp. file would look like
 
 Meeting_on_saturday_Feb_17_2011_16h45min
 
 If the subject of that email had been Meeting on saturday
 
 Probably adding the seconds would be better to avoid conflicts.

Look for 'void _mutt_mktemp' in muttlib.c .  My guess is you could make
modifications here, although I'm not sure how mutt would know about the
subject of a new message.

-- 
Monte

Re: renaming temporary files

[Monte Stevens]

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 07:01:30PM -0400, Monte Stevens wrote:
 On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 04:48:16PM +0100, Pau wrote:
  Hello,
  
  I have vi as my editor for composing new emails. Sometimes the
  connection breaks and then I have to dig into the tmp directory where
  the file was created. These files are named like
  
  mutt-deukalion-500-10049-775496779933749571
  
  with deukalion the hostname.
  
  I would like to see whether there is a way to give these files another
  name. Something like
  
  subject_date
  
  with
  
  subject: the subject of the email
  date: something like date '+%h_%d_%Y_%Hh%Mmin'
  
  So that a temp. file would look like
  
  Meeting_on_saturday_Feb_17_2011_16h45min
  
  If the subject of that email had been Meeting on saturday
  
  Probably adding the seconds would be better to avoid conflicts.
 
 Look for 'void _mutt_mktemp' in muttlib.c .  My guess is you could make
 modifications here, although I'm not sure how mutt would know about the
 subject of a new message.

OK, now I know.  I have autoedit and edit_headers set so I jump right into the 
editor.

-- 
Monte

Re: renaming temporary files

[Pau]

Hi,

thanks for the answer... unfortunately I have a precompiled binary. Do
I really have to change the source for that? I guess so... the change
is not trivial

Thanks


On 18 February 2011 00:10, Monte Stevens montk...@yahoo.ca wrote:
 On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 07:01:30PM -0400, Monte Stevens wrote:
 On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 04:48:16PM +0100, Pau wrote:
  Hello,
 
  I have vi as my editor for composing new emails. Sometimes the
  connection breaks and then I have to dig into the tmp directory where
  the file was created. These files are named like
 
  mutt-deukalion-500-10049-775496779933749571
 
  with deukalion the hostname.
 
  I would like to see whether there is a way to give these files another
  name. Something like
 
  subject_date
 
  with
 
  subject: the subject of the email
  date: something like date '+%h_%d_%Y_%Hh%Mmin'
 
  So that a temp. file would look like
 
  Meeting_on_saturday_Feb_17_2011_16h45min
 
  If the subject of that email had been Meeting on saturday
 
  Probably adding the seconds would be better to avoid conflicts.

 Look for 'void _mutt_mktemp' in muttlib.c .  My guess is you could make
 modifications here, although I'm not sure how mutt would know about the
 subject of a new message.

 OK, now I know.  I have autoedit and edit_headers set so I jump right into 
 the editor.

 --
 Monte