Re: pick question

2003-07-01 Thread Jerry Peek
that are not in sequence a, something like: pick b -and -not a but that doens't work. I'm not on a system with MH right now, so I can't play around to check it... but I think you want to use sequence-negation. See the online MH book at http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/mh/morseq.htm#PreSeq . Jerry -- Jerry Peek

Re: Why not document dcc:?

2003-07-01 Thread Jerry Peek
wouldn't want to actually *explain* anything in a manpage, would we? ;-) Seriously, that extra info looks good to me. We might be able to do without the last sentence, though; I think people will figure it out pretty quickly. Jerry -- Jerry Peek, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jpeek.com/

Re: default components file

2003-07-01 Thread Jerry Peek
of Bill's suggestions; it's just another idea. BTW, I tested it now (my Linux box is back up) and it seems to work: On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 10:19:58 -0700, Jerry Peek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Glenn Burkhardt wrote: Ok. replcomps already includes the line %{fcc}Fcc: %{fcc}\n%, so I'll check the others

Re: Solaris 'vim' configure bug

2003-06-06 Thread Jerry Peek
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Re: Solaris 'vim' configure bug

2003-06-03 Thread Jerry Peek
023 And the first one has the advantage that it should work on *all* Bourne shells and all systems, whether the particular version of echo will translate \n to a newline or not. Jerry -- Jerry Peek, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jpeek.com/

Re: Scan of folders with 10k+ messages?

2003-02-21 Thread Jerry Peek
own, make a copy of the system file and hack yours. There's info in the online MH book; one place to start is http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/mh/morsca.htm#index2 . Jerry -- Jerry Peek, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jpeek.com/

Re: Scanning an Empty Folder Doesn't Change Current Folder.

2002-11-24 Thread Jerry Peek
Earl Hood wrote: On November 23, 2002 at 14:13, Jerry Peek wrote: About rmf warning you before removing a folder that isn't empty: you could write a little front-end script named rmf (put it in your personal bin, etc.). Have it run folder on the named folder (or, if there's no argument

Re: The continuing install-mh saga

2002-11-20 Thread Jerry Peek
new_articles@info Stuart McClure Shares Web Security Tips for Syst 7770 text/plain6825 7770+U11/10 To:jpeek NYTimes.com Article: Bill Gates to Tour India Am Jerry -- Jerry Peek, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jpeek.com/

Re: Improving attachment viewing

2002-11-20 Thread Jerry Peek
Jon Steinhart wrote: If I get a message with 20 photos attached, I hate having to hit Ctrl-C 20 times just to get to the next message. I'm not disagreeing with you ;-), Jon... the interface *is* klunky. But, FWIW, Ctrl-\ will abort showing the current message. Jerry -- Jerry Peek, [EMAIL

Re: Appropriateness of new program/feature

2002-11-16 Thread Jerry Peek
the problem. Comments, anyone? Would this change break any front-end programs (mh-e, etc.) that somehow depend on the prompts that install-mh now prints by default? Jerry -- Jerry Peek, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jpeek.com/

Re: refile changes cur

2002-09-24 Thread Jerry Peek
programs -- for instance, show 1 3 18 sets cur to 18. I think I remember some debate, years ago, about this behavior. The only conclusion I can remember, though, is if not the last message, then *which* message?. Comments, anyone else? Jerry -- Jerry Peek, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jpeek.com/

Re: sorting messages by thread

2002-09-12 Thread Jerry Peek
can fix that by telling sed not to print that sequence: for sequence in `mark | sed -n '/^cur:/!s/:.*//p'` or pipe mark's output through 'grep -v cur:', or something. Jerry -- Jerry Peek, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jpeek.com/

Re: sorting messages by thread

2002-09-11 Thread Jerry Peek
should point it out in case it helps. Jerry -- Jerry Peek, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jpeek.com/

Re: embedding whitespace in program name

2002-09-10 Thread Jerry Peek
a little front-end script and use it. For instance, make a script file named mymheditor with these two lines in it: #!/bin/sh exec gvim -f $@ then set Editor to mymheditor. Jerry -- Jerry Peek, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jpeek.com/

Re: Markup problems on the MH man pages.

2002-09-03 Thread Jerry Peek
-- cross-linking the two and eliminating duplicate info. Ah, what a wonderful-sounding project that is! If you're interested, let's talk. ;-) Jerry -- Jerry Peek, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jpeek.com/

ImageMagick for displaying application/octet-stream

2002-08-14 Thread Jerry Peek
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Re: Using web browser mail agent as nmh message viewer

2002-07-30 Thread Jerry Peek
this problem. Thanks, all... Jerry -- Jerry Peek, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jpeek.com/

Using web browser mail agent as nmh message viewer

2002-07-27 Thread Jerry Peek
Hi, all. All this discussion about hacking nmh has gotten me motivated to change my slacker's ;-) habits. Before I became a slacker, I used to always use MH/nmh to read and process mail from the command line (from a shell prompt). I love that flexibility, and the shell is the way I like to get

Re: folder-specific defaults? [long]

2002-07-03 Thread Jerry Peek
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Do you use (n)MH book? Should I maintain it?

2002-05-23 Thread Jerry Peek
? (one word -- yes or no -- is enough). - if you do use it, how often? (one word, like daily/weekly/occasionally) If you want to add comments, that would be fine too. Thanks... Jerry -- Jerry Peek, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jpeek.com/

Re: Anyone home?

2001-12-06 Thread Jerry Peek
hear. I've been trying to find a big chunk of time to move the online MH book to SourceForge, but now I'm wondering if I might move it there and the server would go away. Comments, anyone? Jerry -- Jerry Peek, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jpeek.com/

Re: [Fwd: Re: Questions about IMAP and sequences]

2000-09-11 Thread Jerry Peek
ation is a lot harder. This is why I'm writing my tomes ;-) about not losing nmh flexibility with IMAP, wherever it's reasonable to keep it. Jerry -- Jerry Peek, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jpeek.com/

Re: Questions about IMAP and sequences

2000-08-29 Thread Jerry Peek
me of the folder if the folder was a subfolder of the user's MH (nmh) directory. Otherwise, the format of these files has been the same as long as I can remember (which is more than 15 years...). nmh utilities (for example, mhpath, forw, show, refile, scan, etc.) use these files to map the sequ

Re: nmh new mail notification

2000-04-21 Thread Jerry Peek
in your xterm, you'll need to do some checking of permisions and other things -- as Neil and Dan said. This is tricky stuff sometimes. Jerry -- Jerry Peek, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jpeek.com/