* MAILRC environment variable
@ 2003-09-28 11:42 Stephen Eglen
2003-09-28 23:34 ` Richard Stallman
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From: Stephen Eglen @ 2003-09-28 11:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
Hello,
I just decided to move my .mailrc from my home directory, and went
looking for how to inform Emacs of where my mailrc file now lives.
The doc string for mail-aliases tells me:
Alist of mail address aliases,
or t meaning should be initialized from your mail aliases file.
(The file's name is normally `~/.mailrc', but your MAILRC environment
variable can override that name.)
[By the way, should this doc string mention `mail-personal-alias-file'?
Perhaps something like:
The file's name is normally `~/.mailrc', but your MAILRC environment
variable or the lisp variable `mail-personal-alias-file' can override
that name.
Which would take preference if both are set? Or would both be read?]
I'm a bit bemused as to how $MAILRC is checked. If I do a recursive
grep through the CVS tree, I don't see references of the form (getenv
"MAILRC"). Am I missing something?
I'd prefer to set $MAILRC since mail-personal-alias-file is not yet
recognised in XEmacs. (Instead, it has mail-abbrev-mailrc-file.)
Thanks, Stephen
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* Re: MAILRC environment variable
2003-09-28 11:42 MAILRC environment variable Stephen Eglen
@ 2003-09-28 23:34 ` Richard Stallman
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From: Richard Stallman @ 2003-09-28 23:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: emacs-devel
It appears that `mail-personal-alias-file' is used, and the MAILRC
envvar is not. So I will update the doc string of `mail-aliases'.
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