[neomutt-users] dereference SYSCONFDIR in neomuttrc?

Richard Russon rich at flatcap.org
Thu Jun 29 11:51:54 CEST 2023


Hi Ulli,

> >   source "$SYSCONFDIR/x.rc"

> Are the "" mandatory?

No, as long as there aren't any whitespace chars in the path.

> macro index,pager       \CXvx   ":source $SYSCONFDIR/xterm.rc\n"
> macro index,pager       \CXvc   ":source $SYSCONFDIR/console.rc\n"

> This works for me.

Great

> > If NeoMutt can't find a matching *config* variable,
> > it will try to find a matching *environment* variable.

> Good to know! Is this documented?

Sort of:
  https://neomutt.org/guide/configuration.html#neomuttrc-syntax

  Both environment variables and NeoMutt variables can be accessed by
  prepending `$` to the name of the variable.

Improvements welcome.

Cheers,
    FlatCap / Rich
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