>I would like to suggest that mhl, show, mhshow, scan and any other mhl program >that displays a message, all have a flag, that would take an argument >specifying how the time of the message was to be displayed. It would specify >one of:
I don't have a problem with that in theory, but practical matters raises their ugly heads. First, we have a lot of command-line switches. That's kind of unavoidable with individual commands. But adding more to the mix might not be the right approach. Second, we already have an extension mechanism that can do all of that: mh-format(5). Okay, I'll be the first to admit that mh-format is terrible from a user perspective. But that suggests to me that we should write some well-commented examples and distribute them, so users can easily pick which one they should use (for show/mhshow, it would be mhl files; for scan, it would be a scan format). We might need to add some extra mh-format(5) instructions to make this easier. The thing that I wonder about is, not everyone might know to look in $(mhdir)/etc for those examples. So a suggestion on where we should point users to our examples would be welcome. --Ken _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
