From a1349849b7d37f6ffd264005c1f945d64bb35858 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Levine <levinedl@acm.org>
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 19:38:11 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Added comment about not supporting trailing semicolons for
 aliases (in alias file).

---
 uip/aliasbr.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/uip/aliasbr.c b/uip/aliasbr.c
index a696e8a6..2e83d07c 100644
--- a/uip/aliasbr.c
+++ b/uip/aliasbr.c
@@ -104,6 +104,12 @@ akval (struct aka *ak, char *s)
     if (!s)
 	return s;			/* XXX */
 
+    /* It'd be tempting to check for a trailing semicolon and remove
+       it.  But that would break the EXMH alias parser on what would
+       then be valid expressions:
+       http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/nmh-workers/2012-10/msg00039.html
+     */
+
     for (; ak; ak = ak->ak_next) {
 	if (aleq (s, ak->ak_name)) {
 	    return akresult (ak);
-- 
2.56.0