The following reply was made to PR mutt/2054; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Alain Bench <veronatif@xxxxxxx>
To: bug-any@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Lidan Shou <ldshou@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: mutt/2054: signature script cannot have parameter
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 11:34:09 +0200 (CEST)
On Tuesday, September 13, 2005 at 12:52:26 AM -0700, Lidan Shou wrote:
> I used
>| set signature="~/bin/gen_sig.sh %n|"
> in the .muttrc file. The content of gen_sig.sh is:
>| echo Hi, $1,
>| echo
>| echo Best regards,
>| echo my name
> The set signature command is supposed to pass the *name* parameter to
> the shell script. However, I always get the following output as the
> signature (which is not what I desired):
>| Hi, %n,
>|
>| Best regards,
>| my name
> How can I get the *value* of "%n" ?
Thanks for the additional informations. You can't: %expandos are not
expanded as command parameters. And it is not really intended to put a
"Hello" in the signature: Probably better in first top line. The natural
place to do that is $attribution (only for replies), or perhaps look at
the $signon/$signoff patch (for all messages).
Note: When you followup to a bug report, please do <group-reply> or
something equivalent as "reply to all". Your reply should go both to me
*and* to bug-any@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Bye! Alain.
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?