i've long thought that it wasn't possible for a user's local configuration to "mask out" a display method configured in /etc/mhn.defaults. it turns out that this isn't true, but i can't find any mention of the mechanism in the docs. (my particular desire has always been to locally disable the rendering of text/html parts, to force display of the plain parts.)
so i'd like to apply this (or a similar) patch to all of the appropriate man pages (i.e., mhbuild, mhshow, mhstore, mhn, mhfixmsg), but obviously only if people think the behavior is intentional. thoughts? am i the last MH user to realize this is possible? paul diff --git a/man/mhshow.man b/man/mhshow.man index abfcc22..e06892b 100644 --- a/man/mhshow.man +++ b/man/mhshow.man @@ -241,6 +241,13 @@ The result will be executed under \*(lq/bin/sh\*(rq, with the standard input set to the content. .PP +If a display string is empty (i.e., the entry exists, but its value +consists of nothing more than whitespace) then it will be treated as +if it didn't exist at all, except that such entries found via a user's +profile or MHSHOW environment variable will cause non-empty entries +found in the system-installed profile (%etcdir%/mhn.defaults) to be +ignored. +.PP The display string may contain the following escapes: .PP .RS 5 ---------------------- paul fox, [email protected] (arlington, ma, where it's 45.0 degrees) _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
