On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 04:19:16AM +0200, Mikko Hänninen wrote:
> Jeff Howie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Thu, 09 Nov 2000:
> >     folder-hook . set sort=threads \
> >         index_format="%3C/%m %Z %{%Y-%m-%d %H:%M} %-15.15F %s"
> 
> > Which gives me a startup error '%Z: unknown variable'
> 
> This is a quoting issue.  Put '' quotes around the whole
> 
>          'index_format="%3C/%m %Z %{%Y-%m-%d %H:%M} %-15.15F %s"'
> 
> And it should work.  You could also put the whole "set" command
> within the '' quotes, if you like, but then you probably couldn't
> use the line continuation with the \ at the end of the line.

That was it. I had tried _replacing_ the " with ', but didn't try
this. I just quoted the format string, as in '"string"', not the
entire set command. I put in the line breaks above for this email, not
in my .muttrc, but I thought that might be better in the long run.

thks again Mikko.

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