Demis Balbach

Ok, so what do you propose?

this is exactly the same thing as the IncludeCmd i proposed above. You are correct. Sorry I didn't go through our conversation again once I came back. on the downside, you're constrained in what you can actually do, and making other options' values available to the executed command requires some kind of "expando" feature, which is even more additional complexity. Could you name an example for that? To me it sounds like a reasonable idea. If you envision it acting like I described in my recent post...

Hello, it's been a couple of months, sorry for that. Instead of implementing userCmd, hostCmd and whatnotCmd, how about a general eval command that executes the given command and returns the first line of its output to the config file. So a simple example would be eval echo "User \"me@example.org\"" would yield User "me@example.org" That way, you could get rid of all the other commands and have that be a generic solution and have the users then deal with it themselves. This is actually how msmtp...

Hello. UserCmd is in fact in 1.4. Ah nice. Good to know, thanks! at this point, it seems more pragmatic to me to autogenerate the config file, possibly using a .mbsyncrc.in with some @placeholder@s I can't really judge what's better from a developer point of view. But as a user, I'd appreciate something simple like a HostCmd. To me, this actually seems more pratical than your suggestion, because I cloud save the data alongside my other mail related data (in my password store) and retrieve them in...

Hide Host, User behind command in config

Well, I've tested X410, for me it does not have the bug. I can't tell anything about other applications because I only use emacs. I've tried cygwin (and msys2) before I switched to WSL. But overall I found the experience not that great to be honest. It was a pain to set up and overall there were some compability issues I couldn't resolve. I'm quite happy with WSL because it's just a breeze. I may look into cygwin's X server again. I've also used MobaXTerm, also doesn't have the issue. However I'm...

I've tried Xming with the latest (2007) release as well facing the same issue. I've also tried MobaXTerm. It will automatically suggest to use WSL, you can just login to your Ubuntu (or whatever) distro and start the GUI apps from there. They will open with the built in X server. It works, I don't experience the same issues. I've also tried X410 - in my opinion this is by far the best X server. I can't actually tell you why. It just feels buttery smooth to use. Has no issues at all. The only downsize...

Hello, thanks for your answer. I have no problem with switching to an alternative. But what alternatives are there? The only one I know about is Xming, which I tried and have the same problem with. Can you point me towards a X-Server that doesn't have that problem?