On date Sunday 2007-02-04 12:16:11 -0500, Jing Xue muttered: > I know 'a' adds an alias for the current sender, but is there any other > more generic way to add alias _and_ make it effective immediately? I can > start an editor to edit my .mutt/alias but I can't see the changes until > restarting mutt.
create-alias, usually bound to "a", makes the new alias immediately effective, and immediately writes the alias in the $alias_file. Maybe you have to refresh the buffer you're seeing with your editor to see the change. Cheers -- Stefano Sabatini Linux user number 337176 (see http://counter.li.org)
