Re: builtin editor: addresses vs users

"Kevin J. McCarthy" <[email protected]> Mon, 1 Jun 2026 08:50:18 +0800

Newsgroups	gmane.mail.mutt.devel
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Sun, May 31, 2026 at 10:40:19PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>In edit.c, function mutt_builtin_editor():
>
>        case 'b':
>          msg->env->bcc = mutt_parse_adrlist(msg->env->bcc, p);
>          msg->env->bcc = mutt_expand_aliases(msg->env->bcc);
>          break;
>        case 'c':
>          msg->env->cc = mutt_parse_adrlist(msg->env->cc, p);
>          msg->env->cc = mutt_expand_aliases(msg->env->cc);
>          break;
>[...]
>        case 't':
>          msg->env->to = rfc822_parse_adrlist(msg->env->to, p);
>          msg->env->to = mutt_expand_aliases(msg->env->to);
>          break;
>
>Why is there a difference between 'b'/'c' and 't'?

No idea.  It's been that way forever.  It looks to me like 't' should be 
using the mutt_parse_adrlist() for the most flexibility.

>Similarly in the help strings, one has "addresses" for ~b/~c
>and "users" for ~t:
>
>~b addresses    add addresses to the Bcc: field\n\
>~c addresses    add addresses to the Cc: field\n\

>~t users        add users to the To: field\n\

>I can't find anything about this in the manual.

Ah, this at least has an explanation.  The help for ~b and ~c was 
changed in 86700b01.  I didn't catch the difference with ~t at the time 
because of the separation between them.

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