Re: indent_string not working in 1.5.16 and 1.5.17

[Kyle Wheeler <kyle-mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Friday, February  8 at 01:55 PM, quoth Randall Hopper:
> Long time mutt user.  Recent distro upgrade bumped me to Mutt 
> 1.5.16, and in this version, I can't get "indent_string" to work at 
> all.
>
> In Mutt, I confirm:
>
>  indent_string=" |"
>  text_flowed is unset
>
> But no indent string is applied to most messages at all, and only the 
> standard ">" for replies to flowed messages.

The indent_string is, like many of mutt's other strings, possible to 
set automatically with a program if it ends with a pipe character. For 
comparison, you can set $signature like this:

     set signature="/usr/bin/fortune|"

What you need to do to get what you want is to escape the pipe 
(unfortunately, twice), so that it isn't recognized as indicating that 
the setting should come from a program. I put this in my config, and 
it worked:

     set indent_string=" \\|"

~Kyle
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