On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 9:42 AM, Arkadiusz Drabczyk
<arkadi...@drabczyk.org> wrote:
> On 2015-11-01, Xu Wang <xuwang...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am frequently using ~iMSGID to search for a message ID matching
>> MSGID. However, if MSG contains '$1' then that does not work. Funnily,
>> if it contains $abc then it is not a problem. I have tried escapes for
>> '$' but it is not working.
>
> Hi,
>
> This is working for me on Linux:
>
> ~i '\$1'
>
> The key is to put an entire expression in single quotes as by default
> $ is used to expand variables. The following fragments of man muttrc
> mention this:
>
> "Single quotes ("'") and double quotes (""") can be used to quote
> strings which contain spaces or other special characters. The
> difference between the two types of quotes is similar to that of many
> popular shell programs, namely that a single quote is used to specify
> a literal string (one that is not interpreted for shell variables or
> quoting with a backslash [see next paragraph]), while double quotes
> indicate a string which should be evaluated. For example, backticks
> are evaluated inside of double quotes, but not single quotes.
> (..)
> UNIX environment variables can be accessed like the way it is done in
> shells like sh and bash: Prepend the name of the variable by a dollar
> ("$") sign."
>
> BTW,
>
> ~i $abc
>
> doesn't work for me, I get `Empty expression',
> ~i \$abc
> and
> ~i '$abc'
> return no results,
> ~i '\$abc'
> works correctly.
>
> If I start mutt like this:
>
> $ abc=abc mutt
>
> then the following works for me because abc variable is expanded
>
> ~i $abc
>
> --
> Arkadiusz Drabczyk <arkadi...@drabczyk.org>
Thank you so much Arkadiusz! I am on Linux as well and it works
perfectly. Your explanatory comments are also very great! I have
learned a lot and even though I have read man muttrc now I can read
again with better understanding and now good example.
Many thank yous for your time and for your help, Arkadiusz.
Kind regards,
Xu
