* Mikko Hänninen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [000129 14:44]:
> First, let me explain about the = shortcut. The = gets expanded to the
> contents of $folder whenever it's seen. So if you set $folder to ~/mail
> (which gets immediately expanded to /home/user/mail or something like
> that), and then have a folder-hook for =mutt, that gets treated as
> "folder-hook /home/user/mail/mutt" If you leave out the =, you get a
> "folder-hook mutt".
obviously this is not true. It should be true, but it is not.
His original problem:
<.muttrc>
set folder=~/mail
folder-hook =mutt blah
</.muttrc>
First attempt:
$ mutt -f ~/mail/mutt
Mutt does not execute the folder-hook
Next attempt:
$ mutt -f =mutt
Mutt does execute the folder-hook.
Obviously expansion is not happening the way you expect. on the first
call, the shell is expanding ~/mail before mutt ever sees it, so it's
just as if he typed "mutt -f /home/blah/mail/mutt" but, mutt obviously
isn't doing this expansion before attempting the match. I wonder what
would happen if he typed mutt -f "~/mail/mutt"? Obviously, he would most
likely get an error about the file ("~/mail/mutt") not existing, but
would the hook be executed?
interesting problem, probably will have to go to the source to find the
solution...
jon
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