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Re: configuring mail



On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 06:55:12PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 11:58:10AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > Remove the spaces around those equals signs. So:
> > 
> >   set realname="Sandip P Deshmukh"
> >   set from=deshmukh@escortsmumbai.com
> > 
> > I imagine this will solve most of the other mutt queries you've posted
> > today, too.
> 
> Surely mutt's config file parser isn't that fragile?

I confess that I haven't fully checked, but it's probably the usual
tension between "fragile" and "flexible". You can't put spaces around
the equals sign in a shell variable assignment either - I think it's the
same kind of thing.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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