Re: [PATCH 4/4] send-email: add support for mutt aliases files

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Mar 25, 2006, 20:31 UTC
Message-ID: <7vfyl6uuzt.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <11432834111445-git-send-email-normalperson@yhbt.net>

Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> writes:

> More email clients/address book formats can easily be supported
> in the future.

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> +if (my $mutt_aliases = `git-repo-config sendemail.muttaliases`) {
> +    chomp $mutt_aliases;
> +    open my $ma, '<', $mutt_aliases or die "opening $mutt_aliases: $!\n";
> +    while (<$ma>) { if (/^alias\s+(\S+)\s+(.*)/) { $aliases{$1} = $2 } }
> +    close $ma;
> +}
> +# aliases for more mail clients can be supported here:
> +

I'd rather avoid proliferation of sendemail.{foo,bar,mutt,pine,...}aliases variables. Can we autodetect the alias file format and parse the given file accordingly?