* Jeff Howie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [15 Nov 2000 08:35]:
> On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 11:07:29AM +1100, iain truskett wrote:
> > I'm attempting to use the following (which seem logical enough for
> > me) to perform folder specific index formatting:
[...]
> > However, they don't work. I get an error:
[...]
> > Does anyone have a better way of formatting indexes per folder?

> As was just pointed out to me recently, it all has to do with the
> quoting:

> folder-hook . \
>         set index_format='"%4C %4N %Z %[!%y%m%d-%H%M] %-17.17F (%5l) %s"'
> folder-hook in-l-bugtraq \
>         set index_format='"%4C %4N %Z %[!%y%m%d] %-14.14F (%5l) %s"'

Aha! The one form of quoting I didn't try! =)

Very kind of you. It works brilliantly.


cheers!
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iain truskett, aka Koschei.                    <http://eh.org/~koschei/>
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