From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: steve.tooke@gmail.com (Steve Tooke)
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:58:51 +0100
Subject: [sup-talk] Exception reading contacts.txt
In-Reply-To: <1191937287-sup-4195@south>
References: <1191936819-sup-5265@Kirin.local> <1191937287-sup-4195@south>
Message-ID: <1191938052-sup-4087@Kirin.local>

Excerpts from William Morgan's message of Tue Oct 09 14:44:10 +0100 2007:
> Excerpts from Steve Tooke's message of Tue Oct 09 06:35:36 -0700 2007:
> > The problem was: 'can't parse /Users/stevet/.sup/contacts.txt line "Anthony
> > Dobson: anthony at blah.com\n"' (error type RuntimeError)
> 
> Hm, Sup doesn't expect aliases to have spaces. Sup's expecting something
> like "tony: Anthony Dobson <anthony at blah.com>". Did you add that line by
> hand, or did you use Sup to make the alias?

Ahh, that makes sense.

Originally, I had used Sup but that hadn't worked, so assumed that it was related to the way the email address was formatted.

Sup did allow me to enter a space in the alias!

Thanks for the quick reply!

Steve

> 1. Don't allow spaces when inputting a new alias name.
> 2. Don't crash completely when contacts.txt isn' what you expect.


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Steve Tooke
steve.tooke at gmail.com