Re: regression: attaching files from command line fails

[Jukka Salmi <j+mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Aron Griffis --> mutt-dev (2008-10-23 10:50:05 -0400):
> Aron Griffis wrote:  [Thu Oct 23 2008, 10:07:02AM EDT]
> > What OS is this?  There are some patches recently in mutt that
> > affect cmdline processing, but your example works for me.
> 
> My mistake, your example doesn't work for me.  The reason is that
> -a accepts multiple attachments, so you need to specify -- before
> addresses:
> 
>     mutt -a file -- addr </dev/null
> 
> Prior to http://dev.mutt.org/trac/changeset/31c9e9727d42 mutt
> would scan for a double-dash in the arguments, and would treat -a
> differently depending on whether the double-dash was found.  This
> was error-prone and inconsistent on different operating systems.
> See http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3097

Thanks a lot, that's exactly the change that I was missing.


> I hope we don't have to reinstate a hack to pre-detect the
> double-dash... Just digs us deeper into the mess of a polymorphic
> command-line.

I can live with it ;-)


Regards, Jukka

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