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- From: ratinox@splinter.coe.northeastern.edu (Richard Pieri/Stainless Steel Rat)
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- Subject: Re: handling .mailrc aliases w/ quotes?
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- Date: 11 Sep 92 00:53:28 GMT
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- In-reply-to: partain@dcs.gla.ac.UK's message of 9 Sep 92 08:52:31 GMT
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- >>>>> "p" == partain <partain@dcs.gla.ac.UK> writes:
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- p> Does someone have some bits to handle .mailrc aliases of the form
- p> alias myself "Will Partain <partain>" (as well as the usual "alias
- p> myself partain"...)? My experience, and casual perusal of
- p> mailalias.el (18.57), is that it blindly chops at whitespace.
- p> Thanks.
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- Jamie Zawinski's mail-abbrevs.el package does. 'Course it does work
- radically differently from the default code, but mail-abbrevs has a
- lot of very nice features. It should be in the emacs-lisp archive on
- archive.cis.ohio-state.edu.
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