Just to add a small point to this discussion. In the greps and seds in
m_muttalias it is necessary to make sure as now that group aliases are
rejected. This is why we do not just take lines that start with alias.
Cheers, Brian.
On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 04:54:54PM +0200, Roland Rosenfeld wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, David T-G wrote:
>
> > % m_muttalias only understands the following formats of aliases:
> > %
> > % alias foo User Name <foo@bar>
> > % alias foo foo@bar (User Name)
>
> > Aha! Well, that would do it, then :-)
>
> > % and converts them both to
> > %
> > % foo@bar User Name alias foo
> > %
> > % Other alias syntax (like your combination of <...> and (...)) isn't
> > % supported yet, because they don't make much sense to me and I don't
>
> > I could probably go about redoing all of my aliases, but I still
> > like the elm aliases lookup format.
>
> Okay, then please try the attached diff against m_muttalias, which
> should support your converted elm aliases, but it is not fully tested
> (I don't know whether there are other side effects).
>
> > Still, though, nobody does comments (anything after a comma in the
> > alias definition, as in
> >
> > alias foo = Foo, lots of commentary for me (even here) = [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > for example) like elm supported...
>
> AFAIK Mutt doesn't support comments in the aliases. So you should
> think about writing a m_elm (or m_elmalias) module like m_pine to
> directly use the elm aliases with lbdb instead of converting them to
> the less powerful mutt alias format. This m_elm module may write
> the alias to the 3rd column of the mutt query format.
>
> Tschoeeee
>
> Roland
patch deleted.
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