On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 11:07:29AM +1100, iain truskett wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm attempting to use the following (which seem logical enough for me)
> to perform folder specific index formatting:
> 
> 
> folder-hook . \
>         'set index_format="%4C %4N %Z %[!%y%m%d-%H%M] %-17.17F (%5l) %s"'
> folder-hook in-l-bugtraq \
>         'set index_format="%4C %4N %Z %[!%y%m%d] %-14.14F (%5l) %s"'
> 
> 
> However, they don't work. I get an error:
> 
>         %4N: unknown variable
> 
> Does anyone have a better way of formatting indexes per folder?

As was just pointed out to me recently, it all has to do with the
quoting:

folder-hook . \
        set index_format='"%4C %4N %Z %[!%y%m%d-%H%M] %-17.17F (%5l) %s"'
folder-hook in-l-bugtraq \
        set index_format='"%4C %4N %Z %[!%y%m%d] %-14.14F (%5l) %s"'

thks.jeff

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