Re: [Nmh-workers] ;-style aliases?

[David Levine]

Valdis wrote:

> However, actually digging into lib/aliases.tcl, we find that the line that
> does the parsing is actually:
> 
>                 regexp {([^;:]+)([:;])(.*)} $line match key sep other
> 
> which accepts both ; and : as the separator.  The rest of the code
> seems to track the value of 'sep' as the separator field.

OK, that suggests not touching the nmh code.  

> And a quick test seems to indicate that if ";" is used, it behaves
> well.

Are you sure?  Did you try an alias that references another alias,
e.g.,

    nmhworkers; nmhlist
    nmhlist: address@hidden

I'll send this message to "nmhworkers" using that.

> What the current GUI *can't* seem to do is add an entirely new entry
> that uses ";" as the separator.

I'd leave that alone too, unless someone fixes nmh.

David