From: martin f. krafft <madduck@madduck.net>
Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 13:03:27 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: fail gracefully in the absense of the aliases file
X-Git-Url: https://git.madduck.net/etc/mutt.git/commitdiff_plain/a3a2e59a9cb6ad1bf4b2397d91cfebd7b00a0c31?ds=inline

fail gracefully in the absense of the aliases file
---

diff --git a/.mutt/muttrc b/.mutt/muttrc
index 87d7502..35915bc 100644
--- a/.mutt/muttrc
+++ b/.mutt/muttrc
@@ -34,8 +34,6 @@ set my_confdir="~/.mutt"
 # 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.
@@ -4445,3 +4443,8 @@ source $my_confdir/hooks
 
 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