"Roland Winkler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As I said, I do not know whether programs like /bin/mail understand > such comments. But I find these comments very helpful to organize > the entries in my .mailrc. The reason I want to put the comments in > the same line like an alias is that then I can much easier shuffle > the lines in my .mailrc.
i just now scanned /bin/mail source (2004-05 or thereabouts) and discovered that "#..." as a comment is only valid at the beginning of a line. of course, if you don't use /bin/mail, no worries... also, fwiw, i saw a sample ~/.mailrc (from sipb, no less!) that had commas between each alias -- this is incorrect. here is a comparison: /etc/aliases interested: you, me, an-ugly-dog ~/.mailrc alias interested you me an-ugly-dog thi _______________________________________________ Emacs-pretest-bug mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug
