Re: mucking with $LASTFOLDER

W. Wesley Groleau suggested to Timothy Luoma,

| LASTFOLDER gets re-assigned on each recipe.  Maybe the tedious method of
| putting it on EVERY recipe (ugh):
| 
| :0
| * whatever
| {
|    :0c
|    * $LASTFOLDER ?? ^appnmail \/.*

BTW, that dollar sign -- which was Luke Davis's, not Wesley's -- is
unnecessary; this time it is harmless but it can bite you hard, so it's
not a good habit to get into.  Anyhow,

|    { LASTFOLDER = $MATCH }
| 
|    :0
|    the normal action for this recipe
| 
| }

And that won't help either, because the "normal action" will clobber the
previous value of LASTFOLDER.  (Besides, if the normal action hasn't been
done yet, $LASTFOLDER won't contain the string "appnmail" yet.)

I have only one suggestion, and it's pretty ugly itself.  We'll make it a
little less ugly by putting the repeated code into an includerc file.
Instead of an action of 

   | appnmail pertinent_folder

use this for every call to appnmail:

   { DESTINATION=pertinent_folder INCLUDERC=$HOME/.tricklastfolderrc }

where ~/.tricklastfolderrc is as follows:

  LOGABSTRACT=off

  :0c
  | appnmail $DESTINATION

  LOGABSTRACT=on

  LASTFOLDER=$DESTINATION

  HOST

and of course, that will work only if there were no more rcfiles named on
the command line.