[Pkg-mutt-maintainers] Bug#836343: mutt: macro interpretation is really fragile

[Antonio Radici]

Contro: tag -1 +moreinfo

On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 11:50:01PM +0200, Samuel Hym wrote:
> Package: mutt
> Version: 1.7.0-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> I set up mutt with some heavy macros but I ran into a very dangerous
> behaviour: if I define
> 
> macro index <F2> '<postpone-message>'
> 
> and press <F2> in index, it doesn't call the postpone-message command
> (of course, because it is not available in index), but it instead runs
> the 18 commands associated with the 18 keys!

Did you notice this behavior in previous versions of mutt? Did it happen only on
this version? Does it happen in unstable?