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[Nmh-workers] [patch] undo of install-mh (Debian bug #551704)

2010-11-05 13:18:42
Hoi,

the attached patch tries to fix Debian bug #551704 [0].

[0] http://bugs.debian.org/551704

Knowing that a uninstall-mh command is surely impossible to create, I
extended the man page instead. I also fixed the CONTEXT section there.


meillo
diff -r 7e963436013a man/install-mh.man
--- a/man/install-mh.man        Fri Nov 05 10:56:54 2010 -0300
+++ b/man/install-mh.man        Fri Nov 05 15:11:47 2010 -0300
@@ -67,6 +67,39 @@
 been installed.
 This can be used by other programs to determine whether or not nmh has
 been installed without their having to know the internals of nmh.
+.PP
+.B Install-mh
+creates the following files:
+.PP
+.fc ^ ~
+.nf
+.ta \w'ExtraBigFileName  'u
+^nmh profile~^\fB$MH\fP or \fI$HOME/.mh_profile\fP
+^nmh directory~^\fI$HOME/Mail\fP or the path specified by the user when 
prompted
+^context file~^named \fIcontext\fP within the nmh directory
+.fi
+.PP
+(The user's home directory needs not to be $HOME.
+Here, this shortcut is used, although the user's home directory
+might have been determinded differently. See above.)
+.PP
+To undo the effects of
+.BR install-mh ,
+one needs to remove these files.
+ATTENTION:
+The nmh directory might have existed before the invocation of
+.B install-mh
+and thus may contain files not created by nmh.
+.PP
+In most cases the following commands will undo the actions of
+.IR install-mh :
+.RS
+.nf
+cd
+rm .mh_profile Mail/context
+rmdir Mail
+.fi
+.RE
 
 .SH FILES
 .fc ^ ~
@@ -85,7 +118,6 @@
 .fi
 
 .SH CONTEXT
-With
-.BR \-auto ,
-the current folder is changed to
-.RI \*(lq inbox \*(rq.
+The current folder gets initialized to
+.RI \*(lq inbox \*(rq,
+in the case of installation.
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