Ken wrote:
You know, I have no idea why there is both editalt and mhaltmsg; from
looking at the documentation, maybe mhaltmsg is just for whatnowproc?
That makes sense.
Hm. Looking at things further .... right now "mhaltmsg" is designed
to be used by things like "send" (it uses it when doing "dist"). So I
guess the short answer is "editalt" is just for external programs (nmh
does nothing with it other than set it) where mhaltmsg is designed to be
used by whatnow/send/whom.
$editalt just seems out of place to me. It's the only
lower-case environment variable that doesn't start with "mh".
Looking at the descriptions of $editalt and $mhfolder in
mh-profile(5), I think we should move the description from
$editalt to $mhaltmsg. And keep $editalt, of course, but
just note that it's a synonym for $mhaltmsg.
I updated the mh-profile, dist, and repl man pages to note
that @ is only created with -atfile.
David
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