Public bug reported:
The documentation in manual.txt is incorrect / misleading in several
places.
1. See under section 2, "Regular Expressions"
"\" must be quoted if used for a regular expression in an
initialization command: “\\”.
"Quoted" is an incorrect and misleading word in this context. The
intended meaning is actually "escaped". A better wording for the
sentence, also changing "for" to "in":
"\" must be escaped if used in a regular expression in an
initialization command: “\\”.
2. Inconsistent terminology.
The documentation refers in various places to: "config commands",
"muttrc commands", and even "commands", but all of these terms actually
mean "muttrc commands". It would be better to use consistent
terminology, e.g. change "commands" and "config commands" into "muttrc
commands" everywhere in the documentation.
In manual.txt it says under the section "Command-Line Options":
│-e │specify a config command to be run after initialization
files are read│
change to:
│-e │specify a muttrc command to be run after initialization files are
read│
and mutt's command-line help says:
-e <command> specify a command to be executed after initialization
This should be changed for consistency to:
-e <command> specify a muttrc command to be executed after initialization
** Affects: mutt (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: documentation manpage mutt
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mutt incorrect / misleading documentation in manual.txt
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