Robert Elz wrote:
I'm not sure this is a great idea.
I'm not quite that negative about it, but...
Fairly trivially, as documented in the proposed manual update, it
implies that
echo 1 2 3 4 5 | scan -
would be the same as
scan 1 2 3 4 5
but that isn't what the implementation does.
...I do think that this isn't a good idea.
I think that it would be nice if 'scan 4 1 2' actually output the messages
in the order stated on the command line. I also think that it would be
better if all programs accepting multiple messages allowed you to specify
'-' to read from standard input -- why should 'scan' in particular be
special?
(Extra bonus UI question: if we make scan process messages in the order
stated rather than always sorted order, what should 'scan sequencename'
do if the sequence as defined in the .mh_sequences file isn't in order?)
So I guess I like the idea but not the implementation.
-- PMM
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