Re: screenpastePlugin.vim -> extract filenames from mailbody and attach

On 19/08/09 23:28, Eric Smith wrote:
>
> Just a thought apropos this script of Christian and getting
> greedier still.
>
> Something that would be seriously cool IMHO is a function
> that parses the mail body and extracts all filename like strings.

How do you define a filename-like string?

> Almost all my filenames have a 3 (or4) char suffix.

This is not true on Unix-like OSes (which is where mutt is usually
found). Most of my bash scripts, including most of those distributed
with my Linux distro, have no extension at all; and this is not limited
to executable scripts, see at bottom. Among the filenames that do have a
"suffix", as you call it, I see buffer.c, run-mozilla.sh, csh.cshrc,
csh.logout, as typical examples of well-known files or filetypes whose
extension has 1, 2, 5 or 6 characters.

> And then to attach these to the mail automatically, using the
> header Attach:.
>
> I would love something like that.
>

Let's say your mail (quoted above) was used as "the mail body". Then the
function would try to extract all the following files from the current
directory:

Just
a
thought
apropos
this
script
of
Christian
and
getting
greedier
still.
Something
that
would

...etc. Note that at least one of the above (apropos) is known to exist
"somewhere in the $PATH", with no extension, on most Unix-like
installations. (Here, /usr/bin/apropos is a softlink to whatis in the
same directory.)

Then also, there are "true" filenames -- let's say
~/.vim/doc/matchit.txt, cscope.out, src/eval.c, patches/001-100.gz --
which you wouldn't want to attach to any message that mentions them,
even if found on your system.

Best regards,
Tony.
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