Changeset 1440:df295e837621

Timestamp:

2000-01-18 14:17:45 (9 years ago)

Author:

Thomas Roessler <roessler@…>

Branch:

HEAD

Message:

Documentation fix about gecos_mask. From Will Fiveash.

Files:

• alias.c (modified) (1 diff)
• init.h (modified) (1 diff)

alias.c

@@ -91 +91 @@
            /* Use regular expression to parse Gecos field.  This result of the
             * parsing will be used as the personal ID string when the alias is
-            * expaned.
+            * expanded.
             */
           if (regexec (GecosMask.rx, pw->pw_gecos, 1, pat_match, 0) == 0)

init.h

@@ -549 +549 @@
   ** to "^[^,]*" which will return the string up to the first "," encountered.
   ** If the GECOS field contains a string like "lastname, firstname" then you
-  ** should set the gecos_regexp=".*".
+  ** should set the gecos_mask=".*".
+  ** .pp
+  ** This can be useful if you see the following behavior: you address a e-mail
+  ** to user ID stevef whose full name is Steve Franklin.  If mutt expands 
+  ** stevef to "Franklin" stevef@foo.bar then you should set the gecos_mask to
+  ** a regular expression that will match the whole name so mutt will expand
+  ** "Franklin" to "Franklin, Steve".
   */
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