Jon Steinhart <jon(_at_)fourwinds(_dot_)com> writes:
Attach was "implemented as part of whatnow" because that seemed to be the place
to put it for one who uses comp/repl/forw/etc. like I do and I implemented it.
It couldn't be done as a shell command combined with the above because that
would have meant you'd have to leave the editor, suspend whatnow, run an attach
command, resume whatnow, and then send. Cumbersome to say the least.
Of historical interest:
Whatnow now has features not available to shell users. This represents, the
perhaps inevitable, denouement of an argument I lost decades ago. I believed
then, and believe now, that the whatnow feature was a mistake; that the correct
interface between mh and the user is the shell.
It's surprising that it took thirty five years.
Norman Shapiro
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