On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 05:30:03PM -0700, Darrin Chandler wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 07:18:37PM -0500, Jing Xue wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 11:36:16AM +0100, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> > > On date Sunday 2007-02-04 12:16:11 -0500, Jing Xue muttered:
> > > > I know 'a' adds an alias for the current sender, but is there any other
> > > > more generic way to add alias _and_ make it effective immediately? I can
> > > > start an editor to edit my .mutt/alias but I can't see the changes until
> > > > restarting mutt.
> > >
> > > create-alias, usually bound to "a", makes the new alias immediately
> > > effective, and immediately writes the alias in the $alias_file.
> > >
> > > Maybe you have to refresh the buffer you're seeing with your editor to
> > > see the change.
> >
> > After three people pointed out "the obvious", I went back and read my OP
> > and realized it was indeed confusing. What I meant was to look for some
> > way to add _any arbitrary_ alias and make it effective immediately.
>
> What I always end up doing is "a" and then editing the alias to be what
> I really want. This seems like a silly way to do it, but it's less work
> than using an external editor and then sourcing the alias file. I've
> often wished for a way to alias something besides the (supposed) sender,
> but I don't do it enough to make it worth doing myself. ;)
Is there really no way to do a generic create-alias, where you don't
have to change the information of the current sender? I've often
wanted to do this - just hit 'a', but not have to erase all the
information I don't want first (I just want it blank so I can enter
what I want).
-benjie
