From: ismo@iki.fi (Ismo Puustinen)
Subject: [sup-talk] Feature suggestion for hooks
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 01:27:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1197760360-sup-5935@arlanda> (raw)
Hi,
I have a small script that works as a biff-like new mail indicator.
The script would need as input the amount of unread mail in the
inbox. The problem is that the after-poll hook apparently has no
way of knowing how much unread mail there currenly is -- it only
knows the number added during this poll. I think that after-poll
is the only non-interactive place where the number of total unread
mail might change. Would it be possible to add that number as an
internal variable to be accessible from the after-poll hook?
An even better option might be to add these computationally
intensive operations to an internal API that would be callable from
the hooks. This way the variables would not need to be computed
if the hook didn't need them.
--
Ismo Puustinen <ismo at iki.fi>
next reply other threads:[~2007-12-15 23:27 UTC|newest]
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2007-12-15 23:27 Ismo Puustinen [this message]
2007-12-19 4:36 ` William Morgan
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