El día Monday, June 08, 2015 a las 02:03:55PM +0200, Michael Tatge escribió:

> > I want to have an additional alias file (i.e. separated from my normal
> > aliases). I tried:
> > 
> > set alias_file=~/.mutt-mail_aliases     # where I keep my aliases
> > source ~/.mutt-mail_aliases             # include my aliases
> > source ~/.mutt-xxxxxxx
> 
> so far so good.
> 
> > but in the 2nd file it does not recognize the 'alias' command-
> 
> Are you sure that 2nd file is syntacticly correct? What error are you
> getting exactly?

I nailed it down: the 2nd file was produced from some Winword .doc file
someone sent me with the list of the members; do not blame me; I saved it as
txt file and built the alias file ~/.mutt-xxxxxxx from it; the vim hided
to me that the txt file contained as 1st bytes the BOM \ufeff :-(
after deleting this all is fine;

Thanks for your help;

        matthias

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