Re: Confused by the Defining/Using Aliases section of the manual

2013-03-08 Thread Chris Green
On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 05:05:12PM -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: * Chris Green c...@isbd.net [03-07-13 10:19]: I've been looking into how to improve my mutt addressbook/aliases and statred by looking at the Defining/Using Aliases section. I'm now more confused than I was before! I

Re: Confused by the Defining/Using Aliases section of the manual

2013-03-08 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Chris Green c...@isbd.net [03-08-13 15:50]: On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 05:05:12PM -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: [...] alias key-name address or previously-defined-alias \| ,address or previously-defined-alias \| ,address or

Re: Confused by the Defining/Using Aliases section of the manual

2013-03-08 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Patrick Shanahan: * Chris Green c...@isbd.net [03-08-13 15:50]: So the manual *is* wrong in the Usage: bit. I feel your pain. :-| I don't believe commas are necessary unless you assign more than one FWIW, alias family ek,mom works. Perhaps not perfectly clear but everyone

Confused by the Defining/Using Aliases section of the manual

2013-03-07 Thread Chris Green
I've been looking into how to improve my mutt addressbook/aliases and statred by looking at the Defining/Using Aliases section. I'm now more confused than I was before! I can understand the Usage: bit at least but then it goes rapidly downhill. It says:- Note If you want to create an

Re: Confused by the Defining/Using Aliases section of the manual

2013-03-07 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Chris Green: If you want to create an alias for more than one address, you must separate the addresses with a comma (“,”). Er, but that disagrees with the Usage: doesn't it? It should (the Usage:) say alias [ -group name ...] key address [, address ...]. I've not

Re: Confused by the Defining/Using Aliases section of the manual

2013-03-07 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Chris Green c...@isbd.net [03-07-13 10:19]: I've been looking into how to improve my mutt addressbook/aliases and statred by looking at the Defining/Using Aliases section. I'm now more confused than I was before! I can understand the Usage: bit at least but then it goes rapidly downhill.