On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 12:09:19PM -0700, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: > <https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/issues/151> noticed that a leading > '-' is not stripped from filenames, which could lead to them being > interpreted as command arguments. > > This seems like a good idea, and I'm a bit surprised
This: > no one has noticed it before. I suspect it's because the folks who use mutt are, by and large, experts with command-line tools and will rather naturally avoid doing this, for exactly this reason. But regardless, it does beg the question whether, after about 25 years of no one bringing it up, we really need to consider making a change here. I'm not necessarily opposed but as you know, I generally favor a policy of "make changes conservatively, measuring the utility of the change against the risk of chainging things." Ideally I'd want to look at exactly where and how it's used in Mutt's code and take some time to consider whether there is the potential for such a change to unexpectedly break things for people, but I'll admit it's pretty unlikely I'll have time to do that any time soon... -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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