Re: aliasing mailing lists
On (19:50 20/05/06), cga2000 <cga2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> put forth the proposition:
> .. inconsistent behavior across commands..? I had not thought of that..
> but it sort of makes sense considering the command itself works
> differently - just one pair of arguments.. so it probably would not
> make be very useful if it could use the output of a script/command as its
> target..?
>
> I rapidly tested your version of the alias command in mutt and it does
> not do anything in my case.. doesn't even show me the `for.. ` .. when
> I tab, I just get an empty line numbered '1' .. and if I select it I
> get .. well an empty entry across my 'To:'
>
> Strange that your version of mutt seems to be behaving differently. I
> am running:
>
> mutt -v
> Mutt 1.5.6+20040907i (CVS)
> Copyright (C) 1996-2002 Michael R. Elkins and others.
> Mutt comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `mutt -vv'.
> Mutt is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
> under certain conditions; type `mutt -vv' for details.
>
> System: Linux 2.4.27.060305-2 (i686) [using ncurses 5.4] [using libidn 0.5.13
> (compiled with 0.5.2)]
> Compile options:
> -DOMAIN
> +DEBUG
> -HOMESPOOL +USE_SETGID +USE_DOTLOCK +DL_STANDALONE
> +USE_FCNTL -USE_FLOCK
> +USE_POP +USE_IMAP +IMAP_EDIT_THREADS -USE_GSS -USE_SSL +USE_GNUTLS
> +USE_SASL +USE_SASL2
> +HAVE_REGCOMP -USE_GNU_REGEX
> +HAVE_COLOR +HAVE_START_COLOR +HAVE_TYPEAHEAD +HAVE_BKGDSET
> +HAVE_CURS_SET +HAVE_META +HAVE_RESIZETERM
> +CRYPT_BACKEND_CLASSIC_PGP +CRYPT_BACKEND_CLASSIC_SMIME
> -CRYPT_BACKEND_GPGME -BUFFY_SIZE -EXACT_ADDRESS -SUN_ATTACHMENT
> +ENABLE_NLS -LOCALES_HACK +COMPRESSED +HAVE_WC_FUNCS
> +HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET +HAVE_LANGINFO_YESEXPR
> +HAVE_ICONV -ICONV_NONTRANS +HAVE_LIBIDN +HAVE_GETSID +HAVE_GETADDRINFO
> +USE_HCACHE
> ISPELL="ispell"
> SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail"
> MAILPATH="/var/mail"
> PKGDATADIR="/usr/share/mutt"
> SYSCONFDIR="/etc"
> EXECSHELL="/bin/sh"
> MIXMASTER="mixmaster"
> To contact the developers, please mail to <mutt-dev@xxxxxxxx>.
> To report a bug, please use the flea(1) utility.
>
> Debian.Md.etc_mailname_gethostbyname
> Debian.Md.gpg_status_fd
> Debian.Md.muttbug
> Debian.Md.use_debian_editor
> Debian.asp.agent-compatible.1
> mutt-cvs-header-cache.24
> patch-1.3.23.1.ametzler.pgp_good_sign
> patch-1.4.admcd.gnutls.59d
> patch-1.5.4.fw.maildir_inode_sort
> patch-1.5.4.vk.pgp_verbose_mime
> patch-1.5.5.1.cd.edit_threads.9.5
> patch-1.5.5.1.nt.xtitles.3.ab.1
> patch-1.5.6.cb.current_shortcut.2
> patch-1.5.6.dw.maildir-mtime.1
> patch-1.5.6.rr.compressed.1
> patch-1.5.6.tt.compat.1
> patch.helmersson.incomplete-mbyte.2
Maybe because my version is rather older:
Mutt 1.4.2.1i (2004-02-12)
Copyright (C) 1996-2002 Michael R. Elkins and others.
Mutt comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `mutt -vv'.
Mutt is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type `mutt -vv' for details.
System: Linux 2.6.15 (i686) [using ncurses 5.4]
Compile options:
-DOMAIN
-DEBUG
-HOMESPOOL -USE_SETGID +USE_DOTLOCK -DL_STANDALONE
+USE_FCNTL -USE_FLOCK
+USE_POP +USE_IMAP -USE_GSS +USE_SSL -USE_SASL
+HAVE_REGCOMP -USE_GNU_REGEX
+HAVE_COLOR +HAVE_START_COLOR +HAVE_TYPEAHEAD +HAVE_BKGDSET
+HAVE_CURS_SET +HAVE_META +HAVE_RESIZETERM
+HAVE_PGP -BUFFY_SIZE -EXACT_ADDRESS -SUN_ATTACHMENT
+ENABLE_NLS +LOCALES_HACK -HAVE_WC_FUNCS +HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET
+HAVE_LANGINFO_YESEXPR
+HAVE_ICONV -ICONV_NONTRANS +HAVE_GETSID +HAVE_GETADDRINFO
ISPELL="/usr/bin/ispell"
SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail"
MAILPATH="/var/spool/mail"
PKGDATADIR="/usr/share/mutt"
SYSCONFDIR="/etc/mutt"
EXECSHELL="/bin/sh"
-MIXMASTER
I'm using the package from Slackware current. I expect Slackware 11 to come put
soon so maybe it will be updated. If not I will probably make my own package
from the latest stable source.
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