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Re: [sup-talk] Ruby question: before-add-message.rb and adding multiple labels at once



Ok. I ended up with

    ([:list,:"sup-devel"].each {|l| message.add_label l}; message.remove_label :inbox) if message.subj =~ /\[sup-devel\]/

May I request a new function "message.edit_labels" that groks the syntax
of the 'edit labels' command (cf. multi_edit_labels in thread-index-mode.rb):

    message.edit_labels "list sup-devel -inbox" if message.subj =~ /\[sup-devel\]/

Comments?

Regards,
    Gregor Hoffleit



* Eric Sherman <hyperbolist@gmail.com> [Mi Jan 13 16:49:00 +0100 2010]
> You could try this:
> [:list, :sup-devel].each { |l| message.add_label l } if condition
> [:inbox, :unread].each { |l| message.remove_label l } if condition
> 
> Or something like this:
> case [message.from, message.subj].flatten.to_s
>   when /foo/ then
>     [:label1, :label2].each { |l| message.add_label l }
>     [:inbox, :unread].each { |l| message.remove_label l }
>   when /bar/ then
>     [:label3, :label4].each { |l| message.add_label l }
>     [:inbox, :unread].each { |l| message.remove_label l }
> end
>
> Excerpts from Gregor Hoffleit's message of Wed Jan 13 08:13:18 -0500 2010:
> > In order to keep before-add-message.rb readable, I was using one-line
> > filters like:
> > 
> >     message.add_label "ad apple" if message.from.email =~ /@insideapple.apple.com/
> >     message.add_label "ad amazon" if message.from.email =~ /promotion.*@amazon.com/
> >     message.add_label "list sup" if message.subj =~ /\[sup-talk\]/
> >     message.add_label "list sup-devel" if message.subj =~ /\[sup-devel\]/
> > 
> > That seemed to work, somehow. Only now I realized that message.add_label
> > in fact only takes a single label as argument.
> > 
> > Is it true that I have to change the above syntax into the much more
> > verbose:
> > 
> >     if message.subj =~ /\[sup-devel\]/
> >     message.add_label :list
> >     message.add_label :"sup-devel"
> >     end
> > 
> > Removing a message from the inbox ("message.remove_label :inbox") while
> > applying a label leads to a similar 'code bloat'.
> 
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