On 7 December 2001 at 8:24, Jon Steinhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am planning to change anno to append header fields instead.
> Can't see how this would break any existing applications. If
> anyone is worried about this, I can add a prepend/append option
> but that seems unnecessarily complex to me.
There are cases where the *order* of anno's annotations (the header
fields it adds) *does* matter. For instance, if you're displaying a
particular header field, "scan" will show only at the *first*
occurrence of that field (the occurrence closest to the start of the
message file). For example:
$ show -noshow last
(Message DELETE:352)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Hmmm
This is a test
$ anno -component X-haha -text 'first annotation' -nodate
$ show -noshow last
(Message DELETE:352)
X-haha: first annotation
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Hmmm
This is a test
$ anno -component X-haha -text 'second annotation' -nodate
$ show -noshow last
(Message DELETE:352)
X-haha: second annotation
X-haha: first annotation
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Hmmm
This is a test
$ scan -format '%{x-haha}' cur
second annotation
If it doesn't add too much complexity, it might be worth keeping the
old prepending code as an option.
Jerry
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Jerry Peek, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jpeek.com/
