From: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie(_at_)UU(_dot_)NET> Date: Mon, 06 Jul 1998 15:02:08 -0400 The format file approach is painful to me because it's a lame little programming or extension language in an era when there are many better choices available. I had often thought of replacing that mechanism with a Tcl interpreter so that the functions performed by the format files could be implemented in a more clear way with simple Tcl scripts. Having it be part of the the (n)mh command means easy access to the properties (headers, etc) associated with the original message. Adding this capability really opens up a wide range of possibilities, and making the "Right Thing" easier for many end-users, without getting tied up with the arcane syntax of the existing capability.
Funny thing. I was thinking just last week that building a tcl/tk interpreter into nmh would be interesting for use with exmh. I suspect that exmh would be considerably faster if all the nmh/MH stuff were tcl commands. Obviously a lot of the planned cleanup of the nmh code would be needed before this could be done, but it is an interesting thought. Chris -- Chris Garrigues Deep Eddy Internet Consulting +1 512 432 4046 609 Deep Eddy Avenue O- http://www.DeepEddy.Com/~cwg/ Austin, TX 78703-4513 My email address is an experiment in SPAM elimination: If it starts with cwg-dated..., it is *only* valid for 2 weeks. If it starts with cwg-sender..., *only* the person the message was intended for can reply to it.
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