You can also issue the :source [filename] command from within a mutt session in order to provide your newly added alias to the currently open mutt session. Else, it won't be available until you next open mutt. Thomas Stivers writes: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 02:23:03 PM -0500, David Bruzos wrote: > > Ok, I got it working: > > However, I think mutt has a small bug. The problem was that I has specified in the config file (.muttrc) an alternative > > file for my mail aliases. The aliases were beeing put there, but it was not picking them up when I went to write a > > message. So, I just allowed it to put the aliases in the default location and it works! > > > > Is this a bug that I should report? > > Or is it just the way it is supposed to work (for some strange reason)? > > Nope not a bug, but the alias_file variable only comes into play when > adding aliases. If you want the aliases to be *useable* then you need > to "source" your alias file somewhere in your .muttrc with a line like: > > source ~/.mutt/aliases > > I think the reasoning behind this is so you can have different sets of > aliases controlled by hooks, but it sure isn't intuitive. > > HTH > > - -- > "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. > Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, > by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan > > Thomas Stivers e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFBqOzW5JK61UXLur0RAs71AJ9DJUnVDX9dyjupbQtNTdXG7zunhgCdGDw4 > 1ogjOkKuTBBk2v2wL3D7ZXM= > =+ud9 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Chair Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org Phone: +1 202.494.7040
