Re: using a file selection command

[Luis Mochan]

> To a degree. In edit mode, add an Attach: header. When you exit
> edit mode, mutt will attach the named file.
> 
Thanks! Very nice trick. 


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Re: using a file selection command

[Christian Brabandt]

Hi Sebastian!

On Sa, 04 Mai 2013, Sebastian Tramp wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> instead of using the file browser of mutt to select an attachment, I want to
> start a specific script / application which returns the file I want to attach.
> 
> more concrete: I want to select one of the most recent edited documents from
> the desktop index so I do not need to remember where the file is and to browse
> through many dir levels.
> 
> Is there a way to configure that somehow?

If you use Vim as editor you can use my CheckAttach¹² plugin, which 
supports ranger as external filebrowser and adds appropriate Attach: 
headers into your file. (you need :set edit_headers for this to work).

See the reference in the documentation³.

¹) https://github.com/chrisbra/CheckAttach
²) http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2796
³) https://github.com/chrisbra/CheckAttach/blob/master/doc/CheckAttach.txt#L73

regards,
Christian

Re: using a file selection command

[Cameron Simpson]

On 04May2013 16:14, Sebastian Tramp  wrote:
| instead of using the file browser of mutt to select an attachment, I want to
| start a specific script / application which returns the file I want to attach.
| 
| more concrete: I want to select one of the most recent edited documents from
| the desktop index so I do not need to remember where the file is and to browse
| through many dir levels.
| 
| Is there a way to configure that somehow?

To a degree. In edit mode, add an Attach: header. When you exit
edit mode, mutt will attach the named file.

I have a macro (in vi; we're in the eitor here) bound to ^A that
prompts me for a filename, with filename completion, which I use
for this. You could easily write something to run a script that
adds the desired Attach: header.

For comparison, this is my vi macro bound to ^A:

  map 
 1G}-:.r!exec /dev/tty; readline -B 'Attach: '
IAttach: 

There's a literal ^M and ^[ (escape) in there.

Of course, I do not know you preferred editor, and I haven't given
a great deal of thought to addressing your need from outside the
editor mode, though one idea might be to write your script to find
the file and emit the mutt commands needed to add that as an
attachment, and bind a macro to invoke it.

Cheers,
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using a file selection command

[Sebastian Tramp]

Hi there,

instead of using the file browser of mutt to select an attachment, I want to
start a specific script / application which returns the file I want to attach.

more concrete: I want to select one of the most recent edited documents from
the desktop index so I do not need to remember where the file is and to browse
through many dir levels.

Is there a way to configure that somehow?

Best regards

Sebastian Tramp

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