Re: how to prevent external commands from being substituted in

2009-07-24 Thread lee
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 01:34:38PM +0200, Rocco Rutte wrote: Hi, * lee wrote: macro index .a unmailboxes * ; mailboxes `mutt-mb -line ~/Mail`enter macro index .l unmailboxes * ; mailboxes `mutt-mb -line ~/Mail/Lists`enter That's not how macros work. If you hit '.a', mutt will

Re: how to prevent external commands from being substituted in

2009-07-24 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 24Jul2009 15:44, lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: | On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 01:34:38PM +0200, Rocco Rutte wrote: | That's not how macros work. If you hit '.a', mutt will simulate you | pressing the keys 'u', 'n', 'm', ... and so on. I.e. it does not issue | 'unmailboxes *'. You need to tell

Re: how to prevent external commands from being substituted in

2009-07-24 Thread lee
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 12:04:12PM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: Get rid of the semicolon and retry. Mutt aborts macros when something goes wrong, which was probably the semicolon. Remember, the macro is as if you have _typed_ it all. There's no semicolon needed before the next thing you

Re: how to prevent external commands from being substituted in

2009-07-24 Thread Brandon Sandrowicz
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 10:13:40PM -0600, lee wrote: On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 12:04:12PM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: Get rid of the semicolon and retry. Mutt aborts macros when something goes wrong, which was probably the semicolon. Remember, the macro is as if you have _typed_ it all.