On Sun, Jun 23, 2024 at 03:43:50PM +0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 23, 2024 at 08:44:44AM +0200, Rene Kita wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 23, 2024 at 01:53:21PM +0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
> > > On Sun, Jun 23, 2024 at 06:29:45AM +0200, Rene Kita wrote:
> > > > MUTT_TOKEN_QUOTE tells mutt to tread quotes as parts of the string, from
> > > > the header:
> > > > #define MUTT_TOKEN_QUOTE      (1<<3)  /* don't interpret quotes */
> > > >
> > > > AFAIU, this should not have undesired side effects. But I have never
> > > > read this part of the code before, I might be wrong.
> > > 
> > > This will break aliases such as
> > >  alias kmtest "McCarthy, Kevin" <ke...@example.com>
> > > 
> > > The double quotes are stripped out of the returned token without
> > > MUTT_TOKEN_QUOTE.
> > 
> > Yes, that's the whole idea, isn't it? As said somewhere up thread,
> > you'll need to use single quotes in such a case.
> > 
> > alias kmtest '"McCarthy, Kevin" <ke...@example.com>'
> > 
> > This is the same behavior as mailx shows and breaks current mutt
> > behavior. That's why it should be an option.
> 
> Okay.  I saw that but thought you had later concluded there were no side
> effects.  My mistake :).

I should have said: no _further_ side effects, like special treatment of
other characters.

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