Jon Steinhart <[email protected]> writes:
>Attach was "implemented as part of whatnow" because that seemed to be the place
>to put it for one who uses comp/repl/forw/etc. like I do and I implemented it.
>It couldn't be done as a shell command combined with the above because that
>would have meant you'd have to leave the editor, suspend whatnow, run an attach
>command, resume whatnow, and then send. Cumbersome to say the least.
Of historical interest:
Whatnow now has features not available to shell users. This represents, the
perhaps inevitable, denouement of an argument I lost decades ago. I believed
then, and believe now, that the whatnow feature was a mistake; that the correct
interface between mh and the user is the shell.
It's surprising that it took thirty five years.
Norman Shapiro
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