Re: Save excursions for mush?

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From: Dan Heller
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 1990 17:57

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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)
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dan
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