From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: superfluous(?) quotes in mail alias expansion Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2023 15:24:41 +0100 Message-ID: <87h6ueqj12.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: <87a606b40f.fsf@no.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="9788"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:mFu6c4qkAtzfWVCyN84WHTrRRVQ= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 22 16:45:51 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1pf0et-0002Hq-1P for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 22 Mar 2023 16:45:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pf0eW-0002q6-7p; Wed, 22 Mar 2023 11:45:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pecuy-0002YN-OH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Mar 2023 10:24:52 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pecuw-0000T4-SZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Mar 2023 10:24:52 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1pecuu-000842-HS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Mar 2023 15:24:48 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 22 Mar 2023 11:45:27 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:143084 Archived-At: Gregor Zattler wrote: > the fine manual has this to say regarding mail aliases: > > If an address contains a space, quote the whole > address with a pair of double quotes, like this: > > alias jsmith "John Q. Smith " > > Note that you need not include double quotes around > individual parts of the address, such as the > person’s full name. Emacs puts them in if they are > needed. For instance, it inserts the above address > as ‘"John Q. Smith" ’. > > This describes correctly how this mechanism works, > regarding it's outcome, but not why. In the data file, it's just so it can be parsed. When it gets inserted, quotes are added if they are needed. Try putting it like this in ~/.mailrc: alias jsmith-1 "John Q. Smith " alias jsmith-2 "John Q Smith " alias jsmith jsmith-1 jsmith-2 then expand both with "jsmith", it will look like this: To: "John Q. Smith" , John Q Smith Quotes inserted (because of the dot) in the first case, not in the second as not needed. -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal