[neomutt-users] Adding alias in alias_file fail

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Gilles Lamboley <gilles.lamboley at yahoo.fr> [2020-11-25 10:52 +0100]:

> Hello,
> 
> since few days, I noticed that adding a new entry in alias file fails
> returning
> 
> 'config/helpers.c :248 : cs_substring: l'assertion "DTYPE(he->type) ==
> DT_STRING " a echoué
> 
> which, in english, should be:
> 
> 'config/helpers.c :248 : cs_substring: assert "DTYPE(he->type) ==
> DT_STRING " failed
> 
> I am using the <create_alias> command (shortcut a) from the index menu, with
> neomutt latest release (updated on an Arch linux distribution).
> 
> It seems weird because adding alias to the alias_file was not an issue
> before. Unfortunately, I can't tell when it works successfuly for the
> last time, probably few months ago.

I can confirm this issue with 20201120:
neomutt: config/helpers.c:248: const char *cs_subset_string(const
struct ConfigSubset *, const char *): Assertion `DTYPE(he->type) ==
DT_STRING' failed.

neomutt aborted.

Elimar
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