On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 05:10:29PM -0500, Ian Patrick Thomas wrote:
> I have tried unsuccessfully to change index_format in Mutt. The
> problem is that I am
> unable to put spaces between the different options. For example
>
> folder-hook in-l-debian-user set index_format="%4C %Z %{%b%d} %-15.15n
> %(41)%s"
Well, your %(41)%s construct isn't right. Perhaps you meant %(4l)%s ?
Note that the first one is "four-one", the second is
"four-followed-by-the-letter-l-as-in-larry".
Sounds like a display font-ism to me.
My preferred index setting is:
# I have no idea why people think %L is a useful thing to have in the index
# header... in a normal mailbox it works, but in a list mailbox all it
# tells you is that the mail is from the list, and I'm sorry, but you
# already know that. After all, isn't that why the mail is in the list
# mailbox in the first place? I want to know who *sent* it.
#
# index header format:
# %4C == current message number
# %Z == message status
# %{%b %d %R} == date and time (sender)
# %-15.15L == list-from
# -or-
# %-15.15F == author name, or recipient name if the message yours
# (%4l) == number of lines
# %s == subject of message
set index_format="%4C %Z %{%b %d} %-15.15F (%4l) %s"
> I get an error when I try and use this as a string. If I remove the
> spaces, the error goes away but at the cost of the index being much
> harder to read. I've even tried using the default setting, but the same
> errors appear unless I remove the spaces.
I'm surprised that removing the spaces makes the errors go away. If I had
to guess... do you have two different index_format specifications in your
.muttrc and you uncomment one or the other? The one you want to use
wouldn't work whether there were spaces in it or not.
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Marc Wilson
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