$mailpath and Maildir

$mailpath and Maildir

[Will Yardley]

is there any way to make expansion of the directory name (using $_) work
properly with Maildir folders?

from the zsh man page under "mailpath":

   The message  will  undergo parameter expansion, command substitution
   and  arithmetic  expansion  with  the variable  $_  defined  as the
   name of the file that has changed.

however if i put:
mailpath=($HOME/Maildir\?"New mail." ~/mail/\?"New mail in $_. ")

in my .zshrc,
the message I get is:

New mail in path.

Same if i do something like:
mailpath=($HOME/Maildir\?"New mail." ~/mail/ndn:cron\?"New mail in $_.")

zugzug% echo $ZSH_VERSION
4.0.4

am i doing something wrong? if not, is there a way to make this work
anyway?

w

Re: $mailpath and Maildir

[Joakim Ryden]

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this "works for me[TM]":

export MAILPATH="$HOME/Maildir?You have new mail in
\$_.:$HOME/Maildir/.maildir2?You have new mail in
\$_.:$HOME/Maildir/.maildir3?You have new mail in
\$_.:$HOME/Maildir/.maildir4?You have new mail in
\$_.:$HOME/Maildir/.maildir5?You have new mail in
\$_.:$HOME/Maildir/.maildir6?You have new mail in \$_."

zsh 4.0.4

--Jo


On Mon, 2002-02-04 at 22:40, Will Yardley wrote:
> is there any way to make expansion of the directory name (using $_) work
> properly with Maildir folders?
> 
> from the zsh man page under "mailpath":
> 
>    The message  will  undergo parameter expansion, command substitution
>    and  arithmetic  expansion  with  the variable  $_  defined  as the
>    name of the file that has changed.
> 
> however if i put:
> mailpath=($HOME/Maildir\?"New mail." ~/mail/\?"New mail in $_. ")
> 
> in my .zshrc,
> the message I get is:
> 
> New mail in path.
> 
> Same if i do something like:
> mailpath=($HOME/Maildir\?"New mail." ~/mail/ndn:cron\?"New mail in $_.")
> 
> zugzug% echo $ZSH_VERSION
> 4.0.4
> 
> am i doing something wrong? if not, is there a way to make this work
> anyway?
> 
> w
> 


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Re: $mailpath and Maildir

[Will Yardley]

Joakim Ryden wrote:
> this "works for me[TM]":
> 
> export MAILPATH="$HOME/Maildir?You have new mail in
> \$_.:$HOME/Maildir/.maildir2?You have new mail in
> \$_.:$HOME/Maildir/.maildir3?You have new mail in
> \$_.:$HOME/Maildir/.maildir4?You have new mail in
> \$_.:$HOME/Maildir/.maildir5?You have new mail in
> \$_.:$HOME/Maildir/.maildir6?You have new mail in \$_."

d'oh.... just needed to escape the "$".  you may all give me 50 lashes
with a wet noodle now.

w

Re: $mailpath and Maildir

[Joakim Ryden]

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this probably is in some document somewhere but i remember when i set my
maildirs up it wasn't totally obvious to me that you had to escape the
$.

--Jo


On Mon, 2002-02-04 at 23:08, Will Yardley wrote:
> Joakim Ryden wrote:
> > this "works for me[TM]":
> > 
> > export MAILPATH="$HOME/Maildir?You have new mail in
> > \$_.:$HOME/Maildir/.maildir2?You have new mail in
> > \$_.:$HOME/Maildir/.maildir3?You have new mail in
> > \$_.:$HOME/Maildir/.maildir4?You have new mail in
> > \$_.:$HOME/Maildir/.maildir5?You have new mail in
> > \$_.:$HOME/Maildir/.maildir6?You have new mail in \$_."
> 
> d'oh.... just needed to escape the "$".  you may all give me 50 lashes
> with a wet noodle now.
> 
> w
> 


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