Norman Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jon Steinhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> of changes are worthwhile. Can we agree on some way to work this?
> >
> >Oh, just for discussion, here's another change that I'd like to make. I need
> >to make some changes in the way the context/profile stuff is handled.
> >Without
> >going into a lot of detail here, I'm adding a -nochangecontext option to many
> >of the programs so that you can, for example, show +newfolder without
> >changing
> >the current folder.
>
> I accomplish a similar functionality with an sh function for use in scripts:
>
> newmh ()
> {
> local oldContext="${MHCONTEXT-context}";
> local path=`mhpath +`;
> export MHCONTEXT=,"$oldContext.$$";
> cp "$path/$oldContext" "$path/$MHCONTEXT"
> }
Even easier is:
export MH_CONTEXT=/dev/null
This will not work with the default dot-locking authentication because
of a bug (it tries to create /dev/null.lck or something like that), but
if you turn on real locking it works fine.
Thanks.
Jeff
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