Re: changeset 5920 / manual.xml.head
On 20Jun2009 11:51, Vincent Lefevre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| On 2009-06-19 23:43:24 +0200, Rocco Rutte wrote:
| > * Vincent Lefevre wrote:
| > > Whenever a user-defined variable is used in an assignment for a built-in
| > > variable or vice versa, Mutt string representations to do the
| > > assignment. As a result, a user-defined variable can be assigned to any
| > > other variable under the restriction that its content is valid. See the
| > > following section for examples.
| >
| > > I don't understand the first sentence.
[... Rocco explains ...]
| > Any suggestions for a better wording (besides a missing "uses")?
|
| I would say that:
| * User-defined variables have type string.
| * The value part of a set command is a string and variables are
| expanded as strings.
| * In an assignment to a built-in variable, the value is parsed
| according to the type of the variable. If the string
| representation is invalid, an error message is displayed.
This seems nice and clear to me.
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