Re: [OT] Why doesn't the lua list get replaced with a forum ?

[Sam Roberts <sroberts@...>]

On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 07:28:48PM -0400, Dave Dodge wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 10:10:18AM -0700, Sam Roberts wrote:
> > 1067   L Sep 22 To Lua list     (  71) Re: boolean operators
> > 1068   L Sep 22 To Lua list     (  18) ??????>
> > 1069 N L Sep 26 To Lua list     (  32) ???*>
> 
> > mutt has lots of hooks that should let you make the list look anyway you
> > want.. with sufficient work! :-)
> 
> The problem with that particular approach (for me) is that I do like
> seeing the author names.  If I could alter the formatting for just Lua
> messages it might be okay, but I didn't see any hook to accomplish
> that.  Another suggestion was to rewrite subject lines as messages are
> received, but that has the problem that the edited subject lines would
> be carried forward into replies.
> 
> So I started thinking, what if I simply embedded Lua into mutt and
> added a callback that can adjust the subject line for the folder
> display?  I keep forgetting how easy it can be to do that sort of
> thing...

Nice hack.

Please send it the mutt-devel list! mutt is a great client, but it
desperately needs a good, small, embedded scripting language.

Sam