Hi, On Wednesday, 2016-08-24 08:51:01 -0700, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
> We've merely reduced the effect of the (proposed alias) $locale. Other
> places it used to affect, such as the index dates, will now be
> controlled by the user's locale environment variables. I suspect that
> most users who have customized $locale for the index dates won't notice
> any change.
That's why I was arguing to keep $locale, with the only place it having
a real effect is on attribution now it doesn't harm but keeps
compatibility with the most useful use of $locale in reply-hooks.
Actually I never thought of using it for index dates, but then I'm
running in en_US locale anyway and use the longer $date_format only with
%d in attribution, in $index_format I use %{!%b %d}
> I like the idea of just getting it done and over with, but sympathize
> with Eike, who has multiple environments. Will deprecating and removing
> a $locale alias over one major release really make the problem worse?
For me the problem is solved with applying one mq patch to tip:
diff --git a/doc/manual.xml.head b/doc/manual.xml.head
--- a/doc/manual.xml.head
+++ b/doc/manual.xml.head
@@ -3624,7 +3624,7 @@
<para>
Another typical use for this command is to change the values of the
<link linkend="attribution">$attribution</link>, <link
-linkend="attribution-locale">$attribution_locale</link>, and <link
+linkend="locale">$locale</link>, and <link
linkend="signature">$signature</link> variables in order to change the
language of the attributions and signatures based upon the recipients.
</para>
diff --git a/init.h b/init.h
--- a/init.h
+++ b/init.h
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@
** in a reply. For a full listing of defined \fCprintf(3)\fP-like sequences
see
** the section on $$index_format.
*/
- { "attribution_locale", DT_STR, R_NONE, UL &AttributionLocale, UL "" },
+ { "locale", DT_STR, R_NONE, UL &AttributionLocale, UL "" },
/*
** .pp
** The locale used by \fCstrftime(3)\fP to format dates in the
However, the effort multiplies in case someone uses mutt-dev on several
machines, and the problem gets worse once the next version gets out and
is regulary updated with a package on a machine that does not use
mutt-dev but not others.
Eike
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