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>>>>> worley@compass.com (Dale Worley) (DW) writes:


DW> Type:

DW> 	ESC ESC ( b u i l d - m a i l - a l i a s e s ) RET

DW> like the man said.  *Yes*, it will prompt "Eval:" in the minibuffer,
DW> that's what it's supposed to do, because the "(build-mail-aliases)" is
DW> a piece of Emacs-Lisp that you're going to execute.

You can automate this in the following way:

Put this in your .emacs:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
(defun mailrc-reset ()
  (message "Reset aliases variable")
  (sit-for 1)
  (setq mail-aliases t)
  nil)     ; this is rather important!

;;; Small function to place the hook

(defun setup-mailrc-hook ()
  (make-local-variable 'write-file-hooks)  ; make it have a separate value here
  (setq write-file-hooks (cons 'mailrc-reset write-file-hooks)))

(defun mailrc-reset ()
  (message "Reset aliases variable")
  (sit-for 1)
  (setq mail-aliases t)
  nil)     ; this is rather important!

;;; Small function to place the hook

(defun setup-mailrc-hook ()
  (make-local-variable 'write-file-hooks)  ; make it have a separate value here
  (setq write-file-hooks (cons 'mailrc-reset write-file-hooks)))
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Note: I guess you could also call (build-mail-aliases) in mailrc-reset.

Put this at the end of your .mailrc file:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# Local Variables:
# eval: (setup-mailrc-hook)
# End:
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Now every time you save the .mailrc file emacs will reload your aliases.
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