michael@fts1.uucp (Michael Richardson) (11/12/90)
I often find myself doing a lot of
set savrec=$record;
set record=blah;
mail -lotsOfNeatOptions
set record=$savrec
etc...
I would much rather do something like:
save_settings {
set record=blah;
mail -lotsOfneatOptions
}
I think that setopts could be used for this, but I'm not sure I really want to
do that.
Will I be stuck doing the first case forever?
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Amiga----^ - Pay attention only to _MY_ opinions. - ^--Amiga--^argv@turnpike.Eng.Sun.COM (Dan Heller) (11/16/90)
In article <1990Nov12.024506.13412@fts1.uucp> michael@fts1.uucp (Michael Richardson) writes: > I often find myself doing a lot of > set savrec=$record; > set record=blah; > mail -lotsOfNeatOptions > set record=$savrec build your own command: cmd foo "set saverec=$record; set record=blah; mail \!*; set record=$saverec" then just say "foo -lotsOfNeatOptions" -- dan ---------------------------------------------------- O'Reilly && Associates argv@sun.com / argv@ora.com Opinions expressed reflect those of the author only.
michael@fts1.uucp (Michael Richardson) (11/16/90)
In article <2867@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> argv@turnpike.Eng.Sun.COM (Dan Heller) writes: >In article <1990Nov12.024506.13412@fts1.uucp> michael@fts1.uucp (Michael Richardson) writes: >> I often find myself doing a lot of >> set savrec=$record; >> set record=blah; >> mail -lotsOfNeatOptions >> set record=$savrec > >build your own command: > >cmd foo "set saverec=$record; set record=blah; mail \!*; set record=$saverec" Sorry, I should have been more explicit: I want to use this in my macros. While interactive, I have a good enough memory to not worry about where I came from... -- :!mcr!: | The postmaster never | So much mail, Michael Richardson | resolves twice. | so few cycles. Play: mcr@julie.UUCP Work: michael@fts1.UUCP Fido: 1:163/109.10 1:163/138 Amiga----^ - Pay attention only to _MY_ opinions. - ^--Amiga--^
argv@turnpike.Eng.Sun.COM (Dan Heller) (11/17/90)
In article <1990Nov16.080151.6729@fts1.uucp> michael@fts1.uucp (Michael Richardson) writes: > >> I often find myself doing a lot of > >> set savrec=$record; > >> set record=blah; > >> mail -lotsOfNeatOptions > >> set record=$savrec > > > >build your own command: > > > >cmd foo "set saverec=$record; set record=blah; mail \!*; set record=$saverec" > > Sorry, I should have been more explicit: I want to use this in my macros. No problem. Now that you have the cmd, just include it in a macro: bind-macro * [line-mode]foo\n (use something other than * if you want) -- dan ---------------------------------------------------- O'Reilly && Associates argv@sun.com / argv@ora.com Opinions expressed reflect those of the author only.
michael@fts.ocug.on.ca (Michael Richardson) (11/21/90)
In article <2951@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> argv@turnpike.Eng.Sun.COM (Dan Heller) writes: >> > >> >build your own command: >> > >> >cmd foo "set saverec=$record; set record=blah; mail \!*; set record=$saverec" >> >> Sorry, I should have been more explicit: I want to use this in my macros. > >No problem. Now that you have the cmd, just include it in a macro: Curses! I never use that mode. Sorry. I mean I want to do: 'cmd foo "save-excusion 'blah-command'"' -- :!mcr!: | The postmaster never | So much mail, Michael Richardson | resolves twice. | so few cycles. Play: mcr@julie.UUCP Work: michael@fts1.UUCP Fido: 1:163/109.10 1:163/138 Amiga----^ - Pay attention only to _MY_ opinions. - ^--Amiga--^
argv@turnpike.Eng.Sun.COM (Dan Heller) (11/21/90)
In article michael@fts.ocug.on.ca (Michael Richardson) writes: > In article argv@turnpike.Eng.Sun.COM (Dan Heller) writes: > >> >build your own command: > >> >cmd foo "set saverec=$record; set record=blah; mail \!*; set record=$saverec" > >> Sorry, I should have been more explicit: I want to use this in my macros. > >No problem. Now that you have the cmd, just include it in a macro: > > Curses! I never use that mode. > Sorry. I mean I want to do: > 'cmd foo "save-excusion 'blah-command'"' We seem to be going around in circles. Suffice to say that whatever you want done -can- be done. the first thing to do is figure out what it is that you want to do! :-) However, you seem to be getting the hang of it, so I'll let you go on your own. -- dan ---------------------------------------------------- O'Reilly && Associates argv@sun.com / argv@ora.com Opinions expressed reflect those of the author only.