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Re: pointing to .muttrc in different location



Hi Spiro,

* Spiro Trikaliotis (trik-news@xxxxxx) [2003-11-15 20:06]:
> On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 07:46:15PM +0100, Christian Schneider wrote:
> 
> > Just start mutt. It will read ~/.muttrc or ~/.mutt/muttrc. See the
> > manpage for details (man mutt /FILES).
> 
> Interesting, I did not know this. Because of this, I have a symbolic
> link from ~/.muttrc pointing to ~/.mutt/muttrc (which is useless reading
> the man page)
> Anyway, I have a question: The man page does not tell which one is read
> if both are available (or if both are used) Is this documented somewhere?

Sure. RTFM ;)

,----[ <http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-3.html> ]
|  This file is typically /usr/local/share/mutt/Muttrc or /etc/Muttrc.
|  Mutt will next look for a file named .muttrc in your home directory. If
|  this file does not exist and your home directory has a subdirectory
|  named .mutt, mutt try to load a file named .mutt/muttrc.
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