On 22 December 2005 at 19:55, Igor Sobrado <igor@string1.ciencias.uniovi.es>
wrote:
I agree, mh-format can be improved, but replacing it with a full-featured
scripting language is a bit overkill, though. We really need a scripting
language as Tcl to provide format strings to nmh commands?
It's just that mh-format has limitations. You can end up doing
horrible workarounds -- trying to bolt on an external script
in a place it doesn't really fit, for instance -- to get the
formatting you want that you can't squeeze out of mh-format.
On 22 December 2005 at 18:22, Tet <sta231@astradyne.co.uk> wrote:
...Why not make it optional?
repl -script foo.tcl
If you supply both -script and -form arguments, then make -script take
priority. That way, you get nice new syntax, without breaking backwards
compatibility.
I don't know the nmh code well enough to know whether this'd be hard
to implement. But it seems like it could be The Best Of Both Worlds
-- in Tcl or whatever other language.
Jerry
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