On Sun, Feb 27, 2000 at 05:43:16PM -0500, Rob Reid wrote:
> Stephan Helma sent me the following patch to merge mutt-alias.el
> into post.el and provide menus for expaing aliases inside emacs. I prefer
> to expand aliases inside mutt instead of my editor, so I have not folded
> it into post, or tested it myself. Is editor alias expansion a must have
> for a lot of you out there? Please email me off the list if you have an
> opinion.
I've never needed editor alias expansion and I'm the one who wrote
mutt-alias. Make of that what you will. ;-)
Actually I can see that checking aliases and getting completion lists of
aliases for use in emacs while editing a header might be kind of handy but
mutt-alias doesn't do a very good job of reading the aliases so I'd suggest
that something better at the job be written.
I seem to recall someone mailing me some time back to say that, with a minor
tweak, some of the mail handling code that comes with emacs can better
handle aliases. Sorry but I can't find the reference at the moment.
> + (defcustom mutt-alias-file-list '("~/.mutt_mail_aliases")
> + "*List of files that contain your mutt aliases."
> + :type '(repeat (file :must-exist t))
> + :group 'mutt-alias)
> +
> + (defcustom mutt-alias-cache t
> + "*Should we cache the aliases?"
> + :type '(choice (const :tag "Always cache the alias list" t)
> + (const :tag "Always re-load the alias list" nil))
> + :group 'mutt-alias)
If this were to be incorporated into post.el then the above custom items
should probably be placed into the group that post uses.
Personally I think that post.el is generic enough that mutt-alias doesn't
really belong in the same package.
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