Ken Hornstein <[email protected]> writes: >>i don't know exactly how to match mime to the simplicity of show(1), and >>i've been violently repulsed any time i tried to use mhshow(1), but i > >I can't really blame you on that one. But really, mhshow(1) is really just >the old mhn, slightly rewritten. And mhn was a horrible hack, we all agree. >We've made it suck less. But my thinking has always been that mhshow goes >away, and mhl be the "display message" command ... you know, like it used >to be. > >>the command set i'd suggest for whatnowmime(1) would include things like: > >Alright, I see where you're going with this. Fair enough; that's not >how I personally work with MIME messages, but enough people have said >that they want this (and Paul even wrote something that does it!) that >clearly this UI fills a need. > >But ... let's take a step back. I've heard that "whatnow" is a Horrible >Corruption of the MH way, in that everything should be a distinct >command rather than create a shell that does a bunch of commands. I >find that argument compelling; any shell we create will lack the full >power of a command shell,
And it would not participate in the improvement, over the years, of the shell and in the advent of new shells. > and I'm assuming we don't want to cram all of >/bin/sh into nmh. So do you (and others) really want a "MIME shell", >or do you just want a bunch of commands to operate on MIME parts? I >do recognize that there is the issue of command collision, so that's >one concern. If that were really a problem you could just make the new command names begin with "mh" and let the user make his own aliases. >Technically, I see no obvious challenge in doing it as >individual commands; there would be some file in $(mhdir) that would >hold current part you're working on, like context today. > >If the message parser is done right, mhl would just be a special case of >your "view" command. Or view would be mhl; details are still a bit >hazy. > >--Ken > >_______________________________________________ >Nmh-workers mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers Norman Shapiro _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
