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Re: [Nmh-workers] Message with repeated content

2014-06-06 08:31:57
ralph wrote:
this paragraph is cumbersome -- perhaps someone can help simplify it?

    Profile Lookup

    Some nmh programs will look in more than just the user's .mh_profile
    for profile entries.  In particular, mhbuild, mhshow, mhstore, and
    mhn will also all look in a file specified by a program-specific
    environment variable (see below), and after that in the
    system-installed profile (/usr/local/nmh.git/etc/mhn.defaults).
    (The mhfixmsg program is similar, but doesn't consult an
    environment variable.)  The first match found for a particular
    component will be used, allowing user-supplied entries to override
    those that are system-supplied.  A profile component with a blank
    value field will "hide" any later occurrences of the component,
    and will make the entry appear to be absent.

How about

    After .mh_profile,
    some programs read an optional profile specified by a
    program-specific environment variable,
    and then the system-wide profile %etcdir%/mhn.defaults.
    These programs are mhbuild, mhshow, mhstore, and mhn.
    mhfixmsg is similar, but has no optional profile.

    The first occurrence of a component is used,
    e.g.\& .mh_profile's trumps $MHSHOW's.
    A component with no value still stops further occurrences being used,
    but is considered absent.

thank you.  much better.

is '\&' a hard space?  (for some reason i have it my head that
the latin-isms ("i.e.", "e.g.") should always be followed by a comma,
but since i have no idea where i learned that, and i don't think it
was in school, it's probably wrong.)

paul
=----------------------
 paul fox, pgf(_at_)foxharp(_dot_)boston(_dot_)ma(_dot_)us (arlington, ma, 
where it's 55.9 degrees)

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