* Rocco Rutte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-03-27 16:35:14 +0100]: > Hi, > > On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 07:18:15:AM -0500 David T-G wrote: > > ...and then Rocco Rutte said... > I try it onces more. > > What I thought of is functionality which would lead up this: *all* > variables of type 'path' are handled different. If there's a pipe > appended, mutt internaly stores the complete string at startup and > doesn't expand anything. Before usage, that pipe has to be recognized so > that not the string is used but the output of the command specified. > After that assignment, the variable still has the same value as before > because it would have to be left untouched. > > So, as I said, a general solution. Sounds nice, at least to me.
But $signature is of type path. You can use a pipe there right now, but the behaviour is different. Mutt uses the output as the signature not as a path to a file to load. The change you want would break this behaviour or at least bring in some inconsistencies. Nicolas
