fail gracefully in the absense of the aliases file

diff --git a/.mutt/muttrc b/.mutt/muttrc
index 87d75022e42c1059c4a9c8f42f7693eeb65913a4..35915bc528639afb2e4e26f8b4e28068f7df3b3f 100644 (file)
--- a/.mutt/muttrc
+++ b/.mutt/muttrc
@@ -34,8 +34,6 @@ set my_confdir="~/.mutt"
 # Type: path
 # Default: "~/.muttrc"
 # 
 # Type: path
 # Default: "~/.muttrc"
 # 

-set alias_file="$my_confdir/aliases"
-source $my_confdir/aliases

 # 
 # The default file in which to save aliases created by the 
 # ``create-alias'' function.
 # 
 # The default file in which to save aliases created by the 
 # ``create-alias'' function.


@@ -4445,3 +4443,8 @@ source $my_confdir/hooks
 
 set my_mailboxes = `ls ~/.var/offlineimap/mailboxes 2>/dev/null || echo /dev/null`
 source $my_mailboxes
 
 set my_mailboxes = `ls ~/.var/offlineimap/mailboxes 2>/dev/null || echo /dev/null`
 source $my_mailboxes

+
+# this sucks a bit since we hardcode ~/.mutt instead of using $my_confdir, but
+# apparently we can't expand that mutt variable for the subshell...
+set alias_file = `ls ~/.mutt/aliases 2>/dev/null || echo /dev/null`
+source $alias_file