Neomutt/mutt copy message-id with b4

[Maciej Wieczór-Retman]

Thanks for the quick reply!

On 2023-07-31 at 09:59:20 +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 31, 2023 at 09:44:48AM +0200, Maciej Wieczór-Retman wrote:
> > Hi!
> > I was thinking on how to make using Neomutt 
> > easier with b4 to apply patches for testing. 
> > 
> > In thunderbird there is an extension
> > that creates a button, that copies the message id.
> > This way I was able to paste that message-id into 
> > b4, and apply a whole patch series to my kernel 
> > source quickly. 
> > 
> > In neomutt I have the message-id in the header 
> > field and I can copy it with the mouse but 
> > I was curious if anyone found a nice 
> > macro with a keybind to just copy the 
> > message-id directly to clipboard?
> > 
> > Googling didn't give me any results, and neither
> > did looking through mail archives.
> 
> For mutt I use:
> 	macro index B |'b4 am -t -o - | git am -s'\n
> 
> which binds the key "B" to take the current message and pass it through
> to b4 to apply the whole patch series to the tree in the local
> directory.
> 
> hope this helps,

Thanks a lot, the command works great!

Since I wanted to do it through clipboard I did the following:
Set a macro in neomutt:
        macro index,pager B |'xsel --clipboard'

This pastes a message to clipboard with xsel. Then in my git 
repo I run:
        xsel -ob | b4 am -t -o - | git am -s

And since I am using lazygit quite often I set a custom 
command also under "B" to do it quickly:
        customCommands:
          - key: "B"
            command: "xsel -ob | b4 am -t -o - | git am -s"
            context: "localBranches"
            loadingText: "B4 with message from clipboard"
            description: "Use message in clipboard with b4 to apply patches from a ML"

Maybe it will be helpful to someone else.

> 
> greg k-h
> 

Thanks again!
Kind regards
Maciej Wieczór-Retman