Aaron --
...and then Aaron Schrab said...
% At 00:39 -0400 05 Apr 2000, David T-G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
% > % send-hook '(~C mutt)' "set signature="uptime|" ;my_hdr From: Neelakanth
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "
% >
% > set signature='uptime|'
% >
% > so that it's parsed at hook-time instead of at muttrc-read time. To
%
% That's not necessary, since having a pipe at the end of the value isn't
% special to the parser. The pipe only affects what happens when mutt
Oh? Hmmm...
% tries to read the signature from the file (or program) indicated by
% $signature. Whichever type of quotes you use, that will happen for each
% new message.
I know I've seen this before, though... Is specifying a pipe this way
different from something like
set signature="`uptime`"
where the " could also be ' ? Perhaps my original experimentation was
using backticks and that's where I noticed the only-run-once phenomenon...
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