On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 12:03:44PM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> The manpage says on --format:
>
> | The fields corresponding to certain letters are the same as the ones
> | in search expressions (scroll down for the list).
>
> Then later:
>
> | s: subject
> | f: from (sender)
> | t: to (recipient)
> | c: cc: (carbon-copy recipient)
> | m: message id
> | p: message priority
> | P: path to the message
> | d: date
> | z: size
> | F: flags
>
> Now when I try --format=p I get path names instead of priorities and
> using --format=P there is just "P"s.
>
> This sounds like an inconsistency in implementation and documentation or
> an implementation bug.
I concur, as I've just been hit by this too.
On the same line, the manpage refers 3 different ways of using the
format specification command:
1) --format
2) -t
3) --text-format
Of the 3, only (1) is correct, (2) does not exist (it is rather "-f"),
(3) does not exist either.
Cheers.
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