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From: phil@wubios.wustl.edu (J. Philip Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Conditional Statements in elmrc
Message-ID: <967@wubios.wustl.edu>
Date: 13 Nov 89 23:34:45 GMT
Sender: phil@wubios.WUstl.EDU (J. Philip Miller)
Reply-To: phil@wubios.UUCP (J. Philip Miller)
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I find that there are certain defaults that change for me depending on where I
am, e.g. when I am at work I want the Print command on the main menu to print
on the system printer, when I am out of town, I have an alternative for
sending the stuff back to my PC.  Wanting differing options on the PAGER is
another.  Now of course I can go to the options window and change these, but I
tend to mess things up too much :-)

I thought about just adding some code to .login to copy the appropriate file
to .elm/elmrc, but then begin to think about what might happen if I had
multiple sessions going :-(

My next, great idea was to invent a syntax in elmrc which would allow a
conditional assignment, depending on the value of variables in the
environment.  This later design seemed to answer all of the dreams that I
could conjure up since I could also do things on a temporary basis as part of
a script as well as vary things by where/when I was logged onto my system.

Has anyone else had strange dreams like this?

-phil
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     J. Philip Miller, Professor, Division of Biostatistics, Box 8067
	 Washington University Medical School, St. Louis MO 63110
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