Re: [PATCH 4/4] send-email: add support for mutt aliases files

Eric Wong [off-list ref] writes:

More email clients/address book formats can easily be supported
in the future.

+if (my $mutt_aliases = `git-repo-config sendemail.muttaliases`) {
+    chomp $mutt_aliases;
+    open my $ma, '<', $mutt_aliases or die "opening $mutt_aliases: $!\n";
+    while (<$ma>) { if (/^alias\s+(\S+)\s+(.*)/) { $aliases{$1} = $2 } }
+    close $ma;
+}
+# aliases for more mail clients can be supported here:
+

I'd rather avoid proliferation of sendemail.{foo,bar,mutt,pine,...}aliases
variables.  Can we autodetect the alias file format and parse
the given file accordingly?