Thus said Paul Fox on Sat, 07 Feb 2015 14:27:48 -0500: > 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.
By MIME I assume you mean a multi-part MIME message? For example, if I ``show'' the email that you send in response, it has: $ show (Message MailingLists/nongnu/nmh-workers:12) Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2015 18:41:01 +0000 From: Ralph Corderoy <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Nmh-workers] mhshow: unable to convert character set of... And yet, I also see the following headers: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Is this a ``MIME'' message as you indicated? If so, that doesn't jive with what you just said about when/how the per-message header is presented. > 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. That's a good question. I'm never surprised by how many things (anachronisms if you will) that people get used to, or how seemingly trivial changes are detected by users. This is especially true when the program in question has a highly configurable interface or allows the user to influence its operation in many ways. Users often find that 1 esoteric option that developers never thought would be used and, much to their chagrin, sometimes use it. :-) I continue to use show out of habit, primarily because I didn't really know much about mhshow, nor have I seen a need to investigate whether mhshow would be better suited to my needs. I suspect that I would encounter some differences, as would others, in perhaps unforseen ways. That being said, what exactly are the primary differences between them? Why should a user use one or the other? As I indicated above, I've only ever used show... (for one it's shorter to type). Thanks, Andy -- TAI64 timestamp: 4000000054d67805 _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
