Re: Organizing .mutt-aliases
On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 22:30 +0000, Dave Feustel wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 09:23:58PM +0000, Charles Stanley wrote:
> > Coming from pine, I'm a bit startled to find that when I view the list
> > of aliases in the process of composing a msg, it is in a single alpha
> > list. Can the list be ordered in any other way? The help system and the
> > manual don't comment on this at all, as far as I can see.
> >
> > I use an alias list of about 300 entries and I had been
> > structuring .mutt-aliases according to their place in the great scheme
> > of things.
> >
> > Thanks in advance, Chas
>
> I just tried using .mail-aliases, but the alias there was not found by
> mutt. How is .mutt-aliases set up in .muttrc?
>
> Thanks.
The default name for the file is .mutt_aliases (underscore). But any
name can be used as long as it is `sourced'. Thus in my .muttrc I have
set alias_file="~/.mutt-aliases"
source ~/.mutt-aliases
because I prefer - to _
HTH, Chas