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Re: [Nmh-workers] some indexing results
From: |
Ken Hornstein |
Subject: |
Re: [Nmh-workers] some indexing results |
Date: |
Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:36:55 -0500 |
>i think "show | patch" should work, but that's what isatty() is for. one
>of my major surprises in mhshow is that it does not call isatty() to find
>out whether to default to -nopause, which show does for -nomoreproc. i'd
>like to see MH go back to the point where most of the time it just does the
>right thing for interactive shell users and script writers are the ones
>overriding the defaults. "show | patch" is an example of how we'd never
>automatically call "fmt" because isatty() would see that stdout is a pipe.
Makes sense to me. When I had looked at it earlier, a very brief survey
suggested to me that most mail senders who did that actually set format=flowed
correctly, but I will admit that my survery was non-exhaustive (it was
only something like 3-4 messages :-) ).
--Ken
- Re: [Nmh-workers] some indexing results, (continued)
- Re: [Nmh-workers] some indexing results, Joel Uckelman, 2011/02/08
- Re: [Nmh-workers] some indexing results, Valdis . Kletnieks, 2011/02/08
- Re: [Nmh-workers] some indexing results, Ken Hornstein, 2011/02/08
- Re: [Nmh-workers] some indexing results, Howard Bampton, 2011/02/08
- Re: [Nmh-workers] some indexing results, Joel Uckelman, 2011/02/08
- Re: [Nmh-workers] some indexing results, Paul Fox, 2011/02/08
- Re: [Nmh-workers] some indexing results, Howard Bampton, 2011/02/08
- Re: [Nmh-workers] some indexing results, Matthew Hannigan, 2011/02/10
- Re: [Nmh-workers] some indexing results, Lyndon Nerenberg, 2011/02/08
- Re: [Nmh-workers] some indexing results, Paul Vixie, 2011/02/08
- Re: [Nmh-workers] some indexing results,
Ken Hornstein <=
- Re: [Nmh-workers] some indexing results, Earl Hood, 2011/02/08
- Re: [Nmh-workers] some indexing results, Paul Vixie, 2011/02/08
- Re: [Nmh-workers] some indexing results, Paul Vixie, 2011/02/15
- Re: [Nmh-workers] some indexing results, Valdis . Kletnieks, 2011/02/15
- Re: [Nmh-workers] some indexing results, Paul Vixie, 2011/02/15
- Re: [Nmh-workers] some indexing results, Valdis . Kletnieks, 2011/02/15
- Re: [Nmh-workers] some indexing results, Ken Hornstein, 2011/02/15
- Re: [Nmh-workers] some indexing results, Paul Vixie, 2011/02/15
- Re: [Nmh-workers] some indexing results, Ken Hornstein, 2011/02/15
- Re: [Nmh-workers] some indexing results, Paul Vixie, 2011/02/15