I'm using 1.5.9i (debian: 1.5.9-2sarge2) and have noticed what seems to be a similar problem with the folder-hook command. When trying to set something like this: folder-hook . set index_format="%F %C" on startup I get this error: %C: unknown variable The problem appears to be the space directly in front of the %C. If the space is removed the command works properly, even if the output is ugly. After searching the Internet I found some examples that seemed to work, namely: folder-hook . 'set index_format="%F %c"' The command is wrapped in single quotes and everything works fine. This also seems to work: folder-hook . set index_format="%F\\ %c" If this is correct behaviour (which it seems like it is), then it should probably be noted in the man page and/or manual that an extra pass of translation is performed with <command> on hook directives (and maybe other places?). It would be especially helpful if the documentation contained an example demonstrating the single-quote wrapping and/or extra quoting required. Ben -- Ben Love blove+signature (at) kylimar.com || ASCII ribbon campaign - () http://www.kylimar.com/ || against HTML e-mail - /\
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