>> how about this: when the last character of a text/plain part isn't a >> newline, append the contents of yet-another-mh-format-script, which by >> default would be a just a newline. > >I raise the tty check since there could be scenarios where a part may be >validating (say cryptographically), and in such scenarios, the output of >the part would be going to a file or pipe and not directly to a terminal. >Could be a burden dealing with yet-another-mh-format-script when it >seems that the only time a LF should be appended is when dealing with a >tty.
I like mh-format(5) more than most people, but even I think it's the wrong solution here. I think outputting a LF when the output is a tty and the last character of the text part is not a LF. Actually, that ends up being a BIT complicated, partially by the fact that essentially the output is never a tty (in the default case, stdout is a pipe to your pager). So the usual check of isatty(1) won't work. The default case is where there is no command to process text; in that case an internal iconv() is performed, and the output is just written out directly. How about the check for a missing LF at the end of a text/plain in that specific case? --Ken _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
