Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap

From	Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap
Date	2021-09-16 13:50 +0200
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On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 08:47:32AM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 02:01:23PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > I don't know why there's a ";" in front of it.
> 
> That's (part of) my shell prompt. It's a convention originating in the
> rc shell (although I learned of it from another); it permits you to copy
> and paste directly from the shell buffer if you want to repeat a
> sequence of commands.

Unfortunately, it breaks in Bourne-family shells.

unicorn:~$ ;true
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `;'

In Bourne/POSIX/bash, semicolon is a command terminator or separator,
and may not appear by itself, or at the start of a command.  It may
appear at the end.

Ksh seems to be an exception, and tolerates it at the beginning as well.

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Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2021-09-15 15:40 +0200
  Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2021-09-15 17:50 +0200
    Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2021-09-15 20:00 +0200
      Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-09-15 20:20 +0200
        Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2021-09-15 20:20 +0200
        Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-09-15 21:20 +0200
          Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2021-09-15 23:30 +0200
            Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-09-16 04:40 +0200
              Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-09-16 08:30 +0200
              Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2021-09-16 12:40 +0200
                Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-09-19 06:50 +0200
        Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2021-09-16 09:50 +0200
          Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-09-16 11:10 +0200
          Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-09-16 13:50 +0200
            Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2021-09-18 00:30 +0200
  Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-09-16 09:40 +0200
    Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2021-09-16 12:10 +0200

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