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Re: mutt/2323: feature of creating personal my_variables should be documented



The following reply was made to PR mutt/2323; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Alain Bench <veronatif@xxxxxxx>
To: bug-any@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Subject: Re: mutt/2323: feature of creating personal my_variables should be 
documented
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 19:12:30 +0200 (CEST)

  On Tuesday, July 18, 2006 at 22:35:02 +0200, Christian Ebert wrote:
 
 > manual.txt has a bad linebreak:
 >| macro pager <PageDown> "\
 >| <enter-command> set my_old_pager_stop=\$pager_stop pager_stop<Enter>\
 >| <next-page>\
 >| <enter-command> set pager_stop=\$my_old_pager_stop ; unset 
 >my_old_pager_stop<En
 >| ter>"
 > I would propose to use my_pager_stop instead of my_old_pager_stop. --
 > Seems clearer than to have another line continuation, especially with
 > a prepended space to `unset'.
 
     I'm not for $my_pager_stop: It does not carry so clearly the
 old/save/backup meaning, that we are trying to demonstrate. And there is
 no need for a space before unset (only the first space after
 <enter-command> counts). So I would propose:
 
 | <enter-command> set pager_stop=\$my_old_pager_stop ;\
 | unset my_old_pager_stop<Enter>"
 
     ...or longer better:
 
 | <enter-command> set pager_stop=\$my_old_pager_stop<Enter>\
 | <enter-command> unset my_old_pager_stop<Enter>"
 
     I'm biased towards the 1st. But when I try to imagine beeing a
 first-time manual reader, the 2nd version is clearly the clearest. My
 vote goes for the 1st^W 2nd choice of course.
 
 
 Bye!   Alain.