From: Thomas Roessler <roessler@does-not-exist.org>
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 22:17:45 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Documentation fix about gecos_mask.  From Will Fiveash.
X-Git-Tag: mutt-1-1-3-rel~67
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=bf563be1a4e27b355bf5678d348d600eb3c9c005;p=mutt

Documentation fix about gecos_mask.  From Will Fiveash.
---

diff --git a/alias.c b/alias.c
index 5a12853b..c226ee93 100644
--- a/alias.c
+++ b/alias.c
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ static ADDRESS *mutt_expand_aliases_r (ADDRESS *a, LIST **expn)
 
            /* Use regular expression to parse Gecos field.  This result of the
             * parsing will be used as the personal ID string when the alias is
-            * expaned.
+            * expanded.
             */
 	  if (regexec (GecosMask.rx, pw->pw_gecos, 1, pat_match, 0) == 0)
 	  {
diff --git a/init.h b/init.h
index 318cb6f6..66c4911c 100644
--- a/init.h
+++ b/init.h
@@ -548,7 +548,13 @@ struct option_t MuttVars[] = {
   ** entry when expanding the alias.  By default the regular expression is set
   ** to "^[^,]*" which will return the string up to the first "," encountered.
   ** If the GECOS field contains a string like "lastname, firstname" then you
-  ** should set the gecos_regexp=".*".
+  ** should set the gecos_mask=".*".
+  ** .pp
+  ** This can be useful if you see the following behavior: you address a e-mail
+  ** to user ID stevef whose full name is Steve Franklin.  If mutt expands 
+  ** stevef to "Franklin" stevef@foo.bar then you should set the gecos_mask to
+  ** a regular expression that will match the whole name so mutt will expand
+  ** "Franklin" to "Franklin, Steve".
   */
   { "hdr_format",	DT_SYN,  R_NONE, UL "index_format", 0 },
   /*