andy wrote: > Hello, > > Recent discussion about the show message numbers reminded me of an > annoying behavior that I haven't ever been able to solve. When I use > show to show a message, it prints a line that looks like: > > (Message ML/nongnu/nmh-workers:9) > > But I never see it. It scrolls off of my terminal and is found above my > pager (if I use the terminal's scrollbar to go back in history). So I > never know which message I'm looking at unless I scroll back in my > terminals output. > > Is this intentional?
i think it's either a bug, or an anachronism, depending on how you feel about misfeatures that have been there forever. ;-) it only shows that header if you're only looking at just one message. if you're looking at more than one, and none of them are MIME (unlikely), then you'll see something like: >>> ML/nongnu/nmh-workers:9 ....message... >>> ML/nongnu/nmh-workers:10 ....message... and they _will_ be inside your pager, rather than outside. and as eric pointed out the other day, if any of your messages are MIME, you'll currently get no per-message headers at all, unless there's only one of them, in which case you'll get the one you've mentioned. (i'm in the process of preparing a patch to let mhshow produce per-message headers.) i myself haven't used "show" in a number of years. i have wrapper scripts that i invoke in any case, and they've been calling mhshow for a long time. my wife was using show until more recently, until i got tired of the occasional complaint that something wasn't working for her, and i made a new "show" alias that invokes mhshow. she never noticed. so here's a serious question: are there compelling features within show that keep people using it? so much mail is MIME these days that i can't imagine mhl is being invoked very often. if "show" became "mhshow" in a future release, i wonder how many folks would actually notice. paul =---------------------- paul fox, [email protected] (arlington, ma, where it's 22.6 degrees) _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
