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Re: mailrc files

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From: Oliver Schoett
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 1990 17:36
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In article <MDB.90Apr10195948@kosciusko.ESD.3Com.COM> mdb@ESD.3Com.COM
(Mark D. Baushke) writes:

[How to get aliases rebuilt automatically:]

 > I put the following as the last few lines of my ~/.mailrc ...
 > 
 > Note: the line which starts with '# write-file-hooks: has been split
 > into multiple lines to avoid truncation via e-mail. All of the lines
 > which do not begin with a '#' should be combined to be on the
 > write-file-hooks line.
 > 
 > # hack-o-rama
 > # local variables:
 > # mode: text
 > # write-file-hooks: ((lambda () (let ((xyzzy (make-temp-name
 > "/tmp/foo"))) (condition-case () (progn (message "Rehacking
 > aliases...") (write-region (point-min) (point-max) xyzzy nil 'foo)
 > (build-mail-aliases xyzzy) (delete-file xyzzy)) (file-error nil)))
 > nil))     
 > # end:

I'm more simple-minded (long line split as above):

# Local Variables:
# write-file-hooks: ((lambda () (let (write-file-hooks) (save-buffer))
(build-mail-aliases) t))
# End:


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From: schoett@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Oliver Schoett)
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Subject: Re: mailrc files
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