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Re: [Nmh-workers] ;-style aliases?
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David Levine |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] ;-style aliases? |
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Sat, 13 Oct 2012 09:43:27 -0500 |
Valdis wrote:
> However, actually digging into lib/aliases.tcl, we find that the line that
> does the parsing is actually:
>
> regexp {([^;:]+)([:;])(.*)} $line match key sep other
>
> which accepts both ; and : as the separator. The rest of the code
> seems to track the value of 'sep' as the separator field.
OK, that suggests not touching the nmh code.
> And a quick test seems to indicate that if ";" is used, it behaves
> well.
Are you sure? Did you try an alias that references another alias,
e.g.,
nmhworkers; nmhlist
nmhlist: address@hidden
I'll send this message to "nmhworkers" using that.
> What the current GUI *can't* seem to do is add an entirely new entry
> that uses ";" as the separator.
I'd leave that alone too, unless someone fixes nmh.
David