Package: abook
Version: 0.5.6-1
Severity: normal
Hello,
please reassign if you think that this is a mutt bug actually.
abook optionally installs a setup file for mutt that sets:
query_command="abook --mutt-query '%s'"
It seems that mutt automagically quotes the %s argument and hence the
single quotes here are harmful. You can observe this using strace.
The effect of using the above setting is that if you enter
Foo B
in a query (assuming you have an entry for your friend Foo Bar), then
mutt will respond with:
abook: unrecognized arguments on command line
The reason is that mutt will call in fact:
abook --mutt-query ''Foo B''
If you remove the single quotes in the query_command setting, then mutt
will complete the query to Foo Bar <...> as expected.
Best regards,
Georg
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Versions of packages abook depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.6 Debian configuration management sy
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libncursesw5 5.5-5 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libreadline5 5.1-9 GNU readline and history libraries
abook recommends no packages.
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