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