Re: comments in .mailrc treated inconsistently

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

"Roland Winkler" <address@hidden> writes:

> As I said, I do not know whether programs like /bin/mail understand
> such comments. But I find these comments very helpful to organize
> the entries in my .mailrc. The reason I want to put the comments in
> the same line like an alias is that then I can much easier shuffle
> the lines in my .mailrc.

i just now scanned /bin/mail source (2004-05 or thereabouts) and
discovered that "#..." as a comment is only valid at the beginning
of a line.  of course, if you don't use /bin/mail, no worries...

also, fwiw, i saw a sample ~/.mailrc (from sipb, no less!) that had
commas between each alias -- this is incorrect.  here is a comparison:

/etc/aliases
  interested: you, me, an-ugly-dog

~/.mailrc
  alias interested you me an-ugly-dog

thi