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Date:      Thu, 4 Jan 2001 18:26:13 +0530
From:      Suresh Ramasubramanian <mallet@efn.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: If you come only once, you've been cheated.
Message-ID:  <20010104182613.A25227@oyeindia.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010104150736.D54749@poeza.iconnect.co.ke>; from wash@iconnect.co.ke on Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 03:07:36PM %2B0300
References:  <200101040627.WAA10564@biperson.com> <20010104120303.A22516@oyeindia.com> <20010104101456.A77019@mithrandr.moria.org> <20010104144043.A23586@oyeindia.com> <20010104150736.D54749@poeza.iconnect.co.ke>

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Odhiambo Washington rearranged electrons thusly:

> Hi Suresh, a li'le question on mutt <I've read the mutt manual but
> where?>, would you, in all your kindness, tell me the attribution_string/
> indent_string that would pick only someone's first_name or last_name?
> e.g. if I use 

The docs are usually in /usr/doc/mutt (or /usr/local/doc/mutt)
 
Mutt uses the same parameter in index_format for indent_string -

> set indent_string="%n>" it would indent all mail replies to you with

so you must use the %v flag instead of %n flag.  That will just set odiambo in
the supercite (a rather ugly gnus-emacsism <g,d,r>).  I prefer the standard ">
", ymmv :)

from the mutt docs - /usr/doc/mutt-1.2.5i/html/manual-6.html

> %v      first name of the author, or the
>         recipient if the message is from you

	--suresh

ps - I'm one of the maintainers of the "mutt newbie guide" -
http://mutt-newbie.sourceforge.net (heavily under construction). Y'all are
welcome to join in, quite a few people from mutt-users are involved.

-- 
Suresh Ramasubramanian  <-->  mallet <at> efn <dot> org
EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin


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