[neomutt-users] Do you rename your binary to mutt? no!

[Xu Wang]

Thank you for advice, Sven!

Kind regards,

Xu

On Sun, Aug 5, 2018 at 7:54 PM, Sven Guckes <neomutt-lists at guckes.net> wrote:
> * Xu Wang <xuwang762 at gmail.com> [2018-08-06 00:51]:
>> Dear neomutters, I have misc. scripts, Bash aliases, etc.
>> I've just updated neomutt and see that binary name now
>> "neomutt". I believe this was done to avoid conflict.
>> Thank you for so nice to adapt. This however brings a
>> question for me. Do I update all scripts etc. to use
>> "neomutt" binary, or do I e.g. make alias in my bin
>> directory for mutt to neomutt so that when I run
>> "mutt" in reality it is "neomutt" that is run?
>
> no. please don't. you should know which program's name to enter.
> "mutt" starts mutt, and "neomutt" starts neomutt. feature.
>
>> Both options are easy and not so much of work or time. I ask
>> out of the curiosity and to learn advantages/disadvantages.
>> What do you do?
>
> call each program by its name.
> that is like root intended it.
> "oommm..."
>
> as for sharing he configuration files, i do it this way:
>
>   $ mkdir -p ~/.mutt ~/.neomutt
>
>   ~/.neomutt/neomuttc:
>   source ~/.mutt/muttrc
>
> so when i start neomutt then it reads its config file
> with a "source" command to read the muttrc first.
> only then it will do the neomutt specific things.
>
> ymmv.
>
> Sven
>
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