On 21 December 2005 at 14:08, pmaydell@chiark.greenend.org.uk wrote
"Re: [Nmh-workers] exciting new stuff for 2.0":
So what exactly are the plans for 2.0?
...
Anybody else got pet projects they want to share?
My C hacking days are long past, so I can only suggest something;
I can't implement it.
I hope John Romine -- who did MH maintenance at UC Irvine for years
-- won't mind my repeating something he mentioned to me years ago.
He was thinking about replacing mh-format -- that is, code like:
%4(msg)%<(cur)+%| %>%<{replied}-%?{x-done} %|>%>
with a scripting language like Tcl, or something else more standard.
I don't know how much thought he'd given to possible complications,
problems, etc. (I could ask him. I'm not sure he's on this list?)
A change like that could make nmh a lot simpler for newbies to
understand and could also make mh-format much more flexible and
powerful. But, of course, it would also mean that everyone --
including users of front-ends like exmh and MH-E -- would have to
update their custom scan format files and other things that use
mh-format. I dunno if the pain would be worthwhile. Comments?
Jerry
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