Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 21:34:21 +0100
From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com>
Message-ID: <87fwrr65de(_dot_)fsf(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com>
| - Given above command lists, which important commands/functionality do
| you think are missing that MH provides?
There's something that a lot of non-mh (or perhaps even casual mh) users
don't understand about MH and its functionality.
That is: the MH command set is every unix command - not just the ones in
the MX tarball (after it gets compiled).
Of course, like any other use, many of the commands are rarely (if ever)
applicable - I find it difficult to imagine a use case for cc or nroff
applied to an e-mail message - but, and here is the important point, that
I find it difficult to imagine (or that you, or anyone else does) does not
mean that someone else can't find a nice use case for exactly that
(and note here I am expressly not talking about show | nroff or anything
like that, but more akin to nroff `mhpath cur`)
In particular, given recent discussions, vi is one of my common tools
(others prefer different editors, which editor isn't important, substitute
emacs if you're a heretic, or perhaps something else), and one of my sh funcs
is "vim" which simply applies vi to a set of MH compatible args, so I can
vim last +inbox
or anything else like that). And given the editor (whichever editor) and
a message, I change *anything* in it that I feel needs changing (headers,
body, anywhere).
Aside from that, all the standard file operation commands get used a lot
(mv cp ln mkdir ...) and the searching tools (grep, ... - as well as pick,
depending upon what I need) and various analysis tools (file, size, wc, ...).
Just making show scan pick (et al) work is not supplying an MH environment.
kre
ps: here is vim ...
vim()
{
local A B M
B=
M=
for A
do
case "$A" in
-*) B="${B} '${A}'" ;;
+*) B="${B} '${A}'" ;;
*) M="${M} '${A}'" ;;
esac
done
test -z "${M}" && M=cur
eval set -$- X $B $M
shift
vi `mhpath "$@"`
}
I guess I should really make it also be able to be given vi args, +/ etc,
but I haven't had that need yet. I use this A LOT - sometimes just so I
can read raw mail (without it being decoded at all, and giving me 100%
confidence that is what is happening) and sometimes to make changes.
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