Scott McDermott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> I don't understand what %d is for then. It's specified as being the
> date and time, as specified by $date_format, itself a string parsed by
> strftime(). It this can be accomplished as easily using the
> bracketized methods, then why does %d exist?
If I remember rightly, it's a matter of history. "%d" was implemented
first, then the "%{...}" stuff was added later, to give people more
control over the formatting.
If you feel that having "%d" in Mutt is bloating the program in a bad
way, I suppose it could be removed.. :)
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