On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 09:42:15 +0100, Dave Pearson wrote:
> According to section 6.3.27 of the mutt manual (I'm running 1.2.5i here) the
> variable `date_format' "controls the format of the date printed by the
> ``%d'' sequence in ``index_format''".
>
> Further, section 6.3.73 says that the %d and %D sequences display the date
> and time of a message "in the format specified by ``date_format''".
>
> However, it would appear that `date_format' doesn't (quite rightly?) work
> for all uses of the `index_format' sequences.
Would it? Not to me.
> For example, `date_format'
> does affect the output of `attribution' (the documentation of which points
> the reader to the documentation for `index_format').
Yes, "date_format" does affect the output of "attribution" if the
"attribution" string contains %d or %D sequences.
> Is this a documentation bug?
I don't see any bug here.
--
Byrial
http://home.worldonline.dk/~byrial/
