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bug #43125: %p modifier no longer works with nmh 1.6

Submitted by:  Eric Schnoebelen <ericschnoebelen>
Submitted on:  Mon 01 Sep 2014 03:38:20 PM UTC  
 
Category: BugSeverity: 3 - Normal
Priority: 5 - NormalStatus: Wont Fix
Assigned to: NoneOpen/Closed: Closed

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Mon 01 Sep 2014 04:18:16 PM UTC, comment #1:

So ... the short answer is: %p is gone, and it ain't coming back.

The longer answer: We had a large discussion about this on nmh-workers, under the heading of improvements to mhshow. Some sample discussion is here:

http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/nmh-workers/2014-03/msg00030.html
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/nmh-workers/2014-03/msg00118.html

-pause made the code in mhshowsbr.c a lot more complicated than it needed to be. When I brought up removing this functionality, no one said that they cared that it would go away.

The plan for the next version of nmh is that the MIME functionality be completely rewritten and mhshow's functionality would simply be incorporated into show. I'd be up for having some interactive-type MIME part selector functionality under this new code (which hasn't been written yet) but I don't see the value in adding this code back because the plan is that mhshowsbr.c is going to be completely gone.

Ken Hornstein <kenh>
Project Administrator
Mon 01 Sep 2014 03:38:20 PM UTC, original submission:

The '%p' command modifier in .mh_profile no longer works. I read in the ChangeLog it was removed, with no explanation of why.

I use %p to allow me the opportunity to select if a particular portion of a multi-part message is to be viewed.

I'll acknowledge it seems less than useful in an nmh world where `-concatt' is standard, but I found `-concat' as a default to be less than useful in my workflows, and have disabled it in my personal configuration.

If desired, I can compose a suitable patch to restore the '%p' functionality. (I may well do so for inclusion in NetBSD's pkgsrc anyway.)

Eric Schnoebelen <ericschnoebelen>

 

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