Re: Confused by the "Defining/Using Aliases" section of the manual

2013-03-08 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Patrick Shanahan: > * Chris Green [03-08-13 15:50]: > > So the manual *is* wrong in the Usage: bit. I feel your pain. :-| > I don't believe commas are necessary unless you assign more than one FWIW, "alias family ek,mom" works. > Perhaps not perfectly clear but everyone does not

Re: Confused by the "Defining/Using Aliases" section of the manual

2013-03-08 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Chris Green [03-08-13 15:50]: > On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 05:05:12PM -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: [...] > > > > alias\| > > , \| > > , \| > > , \| > > , \| > > ... > > > So the manual *is

Re: Confused by the "Defining/Using Aliases" section of the manual

2013-03-08 Thread Chris Green
On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 05:05:12PM -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Chris Green [03-07-13 10:19]: > > I've been looking into how to improve my mutt addressbook/aliases and > > statred by looking at the "Defining/Using Aliases" section. I'm now > > more confused than I was before! > > > > I can

Re: Confused by the "Defining/Using Aliases" section of the manual

2013-03-07 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Chris Green [03-07-13 10:19]: > I've been looking into how to improve my mutt addressbook/aliases and > statred by looking at the "Defining/Using Aliases" section. I'm now > more confused than I was before! > > I can understand the Usage: bit at least but then it goes rapidly > downhill. > >

Re: Confused by the "Defining/Using Aliases" section of the manual

2013-03-07 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Chris Green: > > If you want to create an alias for more than one address, you must > separate the addresses with a comma (“,”). > > Er, but that disagrees with the Usage: doesn't it? It should (the > Usage:) say "alias [ -group name ...] key address [, address ...]". I've