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Re: changing the mail message with $MAILPATH

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From: Zefram <zefram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: roderick@xxxxxxxxx (Roderick Schertler)
Subject: Re: changing the mail message with $MAILPATH
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 17:24:23 +0100 (BST)
Cc: zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <2647.861808441@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> from "Roderick Schertler" at Apr 23, 97 11:14:01 am

Roderick Schertler wrote:
>Is there a way to change the default message you get when you have new
>mail?  That is, a way to prevent the repetition in
>
>    mailpath=('foo?New mail in $_'
>    	    	'bar?New mail in $_'
>		'baz?New mail in $_')

mailpath=( {foo,bar,baz}'?New mail in $_' )

>If there isn't, how about adding one?  A possible syntax would be that
>an element of the array which starts with ? would change the default
>message from the next element forward.

That would be reasonable.

-zefram

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