scott@wiley.uucp (Scott Simpson) (08/29/90)
How do you get the home directory in the .mh_profile? I have a line like ali: -alias /home/nyssa/0/scott/.aliases in my .mh_profile and I would like to substitute something like ali: -alias $HOME/.aliases or ali: -alias ~/.aliases Neither work. Scott Simpson TRW scott@coyote.trw.com
matt@ODDJOB.UCHICAGO.EDU (Matt Crawford) (08/29/90)
I keep my MH aliases file inside of my top-level MH directory and simply give the file names, with no "/". Path: Mail Msg-Protect: 644 Folder-Protect: 744 Draft-Folder: drafts post: -alias MHAliases send: -alias MHAliases whom: -alias MHAliases ali: -alias MHAliases (and so on) My aliases file is $HOME/Mail/MHAliases. ________________________________________________________ Matt Crawford matt@oddjob.uchicago.edu
merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) (08/29/90)
In article <26DAA3D0.737B@wilbur.coyote.trw.com>, scott@wiley (Scott Simpson) writes: | How do you get the home directory in the .mh_profile? I have a line | like | ali: -alias /home/nyssa/0/scott/.aliases | in my .mh_profile and I would like to substitute something like | ali: -alias $HOME/.aliases | or | ali: -alias ~/.aliases | Neither work. A silly workaround that might just do the trick. ali: -alias aliases and then "ln -s $HOME/your-mail-dir/aliases $HOME/.aliases" to the shell. or skip the second step if you really don't need to see the aliases in your home directory. 's'what I do. Works. (Actually, I use "AliasFile: aliases", but you get the drift.) Just another MH beginning-hacker, -- /=Randal L. Schwartz, Stonehenge Consulting Services (503)777-0095 ==========\ | on contract to Intel's iWarp project, Beaverton, Oregon, USA, Sol III | | merlyn@iwarp.intel.com ...!any-MX-mailer-like-uunet!iwarp.intel.com!merlyn | \=Cute Quote: "Welcome to Portland, Oregon, home of the California Raisins!"=/