>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 _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
