On 22 December 2005 at 19:55, Igor Sobrado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I agree, mh-format can be improved, but replacing it with a full-featured > scripting language is a bit overkill, though. We really need a scripting > language as Tcl to provide format strings to nmh commands?
It's just that mh-format has limitations. You can end up doing horrible workarounds -- trying to bolt on an external script in a place it doesn't really fit, for instance -- to get the formatting you want that you can't squeeze out of mh-format. On 22 December 2005 at 18:22, Tet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ...Why not make it optional? > > repl -script foo.tcl > > If you supply both -script and -form arguments, then make -script take > priority. That way, you get nice new syntax, without breaking backwards > compatibility. I don't know the nmh code well enough to know whether this'd be hard to implement. But it seems like it could be The Best Of Both Worlds -- in Tcl or whatever other language. Jerry _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
