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Re: changing the defaults for forw and repl

1998-05-19 10:12:50
For the next version of nmh, I am contemplating about
changing `forw' and `repl', so that the flag `-format'
is "on" by default.

When using MH/nmh at the command line, this flag is
desired about 95% of the time.  So it makes sense for it
to be on by default.

Not if there's long historical precedent for it being off by default.
People who want it on have many ways of accomplishing that simply and
have been doing that for ages.  People who use other tools, such as
exmh, should not have to dismantle things just because some internal
default in a part of the system they never normally touch has changed.

And, if it is intended to make it easy for people to change from mh to
nmh, then nmh should retain the same defaults as mh or the task of
changing becomes too difficult to be worth contemplating.

-- 
Greg Black <gjb(_at_)acm(_dot_)org>



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