> > But I don't have that for things like "next", and what happens is AFTER > > I quit the pager, I see the line: > > > > (Message inbox:xxx) > >after? i suppose if your pager does the screen switch thing, then it >might appear to come after, but it's definitely being output before.
Oh, definitely, but the screen switching thing done by curses/termcap/terminfo for xterm. I thought it was pretty standardized now, that's why I'm surprised it didn't work for Andy. > > Contrary to it's name, "show"'s job isn't really to display a message; > > it's to SELECT one or more messages for display. Hence the reason > > "next" and "prev" are really links to "show". Once messages have been > > selected, it's really supposed to be your showproc's job to display the > > message, and the default showproc is mhl. This suggests to me not that > > we should switch show over to mhshow, but really make mhl MIME-aware. > > Then show would get the relevant switches for things like MIME part > > selection (which would end up being passed down to mhl) and mhshow would > > go away. Well, we'd keep a link around for it, but really, mhshow would > > just become show. > >okay. i'll have to think about that some. As a corollary, I have no objections to people improving show/mhshow. I'm just trying to explain what I think the long-term vision should be. You can see some of my thoughts on a "new MIME" architecture here: http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/nmh-workers/2014-07/msg00058.html --Ken _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
