On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 09:34:50PM -0500, David Wright wrote: [...] > BTW, your shell command, > > !see --norun application/octet-stream:/dev/null > > will give you an answer in the context of a subshell, and > not necessarily in the context of mutt itself [...] Definitely, that's another point. I was just mulling over the semicolon and came up with a minimal patch ;-) > About the ";", it could also be an accidentally unshifted ":", > and it might be easy to mis-remember: The keyboard (and semantic) distance would be much shorter, this makes this option attractive -- but there is no `:see' command in "my" mutt, and, as far as I remember Nate seems to have tried it unsuccessfully, too. > > ":" is mutt's keystroke for entering mutt commands, whereas > "!" is mutt's keystroke for entering shell commands. That is why I went for "!" after realising that there's a `see' shell command but no homonymous mutt command... Cheers - t
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