[Pkg-mutt-maintainers] Bug#837045: mutt: wrong handling of symbol '>' in conditional expression

[Richard Russon]

Hi Andrey,

Thanks for the bug report.

> The problem is in part '%?M?<%M> ?'. Number of hidden messages in thread are
> only shown it thread is collapsed, like this '<10>'.

This is a known issue which comes from the "nested-if" patch.
Mutt allows you to nest conditionals, but the syntax is very scary --
requiring a LOT of escaping.

The solution was nested-if, which introduces the %<> notation.
I've attempted to document it, here:
    http://www.neomutt.org/feature/nested-if/

I haven't decided how to fix this problem, yet, so you have two options.
Escape the <> chars, or choose different ones.

The upstream (NeoMutt) bug is tracked, here:
    https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/issues/113

Cheers,
    Rich / FlatCap
    NeoMutt maintainer

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