ken wrote: > >allowing for very general purpose substitution lets the user use > >almost any tool they want to do their scripting -- if mh forgets to > >provide some parameter the user needs (time of day? is it a holiday? > >am i on my laptop?), then they still have access to that information > >via external mechanisms. limiting me to regexps in the components > >file seems, well, limiting. > > Well Paul, you know where the code is ... have at it, my friend!
of course. i'm still in brain-storming mode. :-) paul > > In all seriousness ... yes, I'd like that as well. But I'm limited > in time and energy. If we add one function to the components that > makes this workable for me, then I'm happy. This is what Lyndon & > I were talking about earlier in terms of an embedded scripting > language available for use in the components file. Adding one > format function, I can do now. Figuring out a more general solution ... > well, that's complicated, because that will involve some significant > design work to make it useful enough. I'm not afraid of complicated, > but I realize that for ME, "complicated" means, "probably won't get > done for a year or two, if I'm lucky". But please, if you or anyone > else wants to tackle this work don't let me stand in your way. > > --Ken > > _______________________________________________ > Nmh-workers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers =--------------------- paul fox, [email protected] (arlington, ma, where it's 34.0 degrees) _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
