reply and forcing context

[Erik Colson]

Hello,

Sometimes people knowing my personal mail address sent a professional mail to it.  Hitting R will reply then using my personal address, which is not what I want.

mu4e allows me to switch context, but when I hit R it switches back to my personal context.  Is there an option to force another context while replying to a mail ?

thanks

[Yuri D'Elia]

On Mon, Aug 07 2017, Erik Colson wrote:
> mu4e allows me to switch context, but when I hit R it switches back to my
> personal context. Is there an option to force another context while
> replying to a mail ?

In 'mu4e-contexts, you can setup a :match-func that will be run to
decide which context is used depending on the message being acted on.

See the documentation about contextes.

[Erik Colson]

Yuri D'Elia <wav...@thregr.org> writes:

> In 'mu4e-contexts, you can setup a :match-func that will be run to
> decide which context is used depending on the message being acted on.

That is the function I actually use in normal situation. Sometimes I
want to _force_ mu4e to _not_ follow the matching context and use
another one. I can figure how to do this since mu4e always rechecks
match-func's before launching an action.
--
erik colson

[Yuri D'Elia]

On Wed, Aug 09 2017, Erik Colson wrote:
>> In 'mu4e-contexts, you can setup a :match-func that will be run to
>> decide which context is used depending on the message being acted on.
>
> That is the function I actually use in normal situation. Sometimes I
> want to _force_ mu4e to _not_ follow the matching context and use
> another one. I can figure how to do this since mu4e always rechecks
> match-func's before launching an action.

Ok, it's clear now. Just as a pure guess, what about checking for a
prefix argument in :match-func and return nil? [hoping it would prompt]

What I normally do in these cases is change the context when composing.
I use the snippet posted by "cacology" on the mu issues to change it
mid-flight:

https://github.com/djcb/mu/issues/776#issuecomment-242924867

[Christophe Troestler]

Hi,

On 2017-08-09, Yuri D'Elia wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 07 2017, Erik Colson wrote:
> > mu4e allows me to switch context, but when I hit R it switches back
> > to my personal context. Is there an option to force another context
> > while replying to a mail ?
>
> In 'mu4e-contexts, you can setup a :match-func that will be run to
> decide which context is used depending on the message being acted on.

BTW, wouldn’t it make sense that :enter-func takes (a possibly null)
message as argument? That would be useful to set the default dictionary
according to the person one replies to for example.

Best,
C.