On 10 Jul 2014, at 10:17, Ken Hornstein <[email protected]> wrote: > > The same parser that reads email messages (m_getfld()) also reads the > profile (also, it does sequence files). So to truely handle comments > would require changes to m_getfld(), which nobody is itching to do. > In theory we could simply ignore fields which begin with a '#' and not > put them in the profile structure; that might be worth doing. But that > would still not permit '#' as a generic comment character; you'd still > need to have a colon in there. It's one of those old MH things that > isn't wonderful, but none of the fixes are easy.
I knew the second half, but not the first half. Thank you for taking the time to educate me, and for all your work on nmh. ~Chad _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
