On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 10:20 PM, Ken Hornstein <kenh(_at_)pobox(_dot_)com>
wrote:
One problem we have run into with mh-e and nmh 1.5 is that mh-e is no
longer able to read the comp formfile directly. That's because of
some dynamically generated content, isn't it?
Well, I suspect you're able to read it, but it's not very useful, is it?
Because the default components file now supports mh-format(5) and the actual
draft is generated by having comp process the components file via
mh-format(5).
I guess I didn't think this would be a problem, since the front-end program
I am used to (exmh) handled it fine. Sorry about that; the change wasn't
a secret, and I guess I thought if there was a problem then people would
speak up about it!
Not your fault. Several of us contribute to both projects and should
have caught
this during development of 1.5. *blush* I was aware of this change,
but did not
look into how it would affect mh-e.
Right now we are changing the code to use comp to generate a draft and
then reading that in. That requires creating a temporary directory
and running comp there. That insures that we can read message 1.
What can we do to simplify this? The obvious answer would be to add a
-build flag to comp as is supported on repl and forw.
It looks like .... what exmh does, at least, is simply invokes the
command "comp -nowhatnowproc", and then gets the message out of the drafts
folder by seeing what "cur" is. Is that not sufficient?
I worry about concurrency problems doing that. Scripts could be
running that would change cur.
What the -build option does is only slightly better. It causes a file
called <draft-folder>/drafts, or <draft-folder>/reply to be created.
There could be collisions from other programs calling [comp|repl|forw]
-build, but that is less likely than something messing with cur.
Thanks
Jeff
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