Greetings. Long-time MH/NMH user, just upgraded to NMH 1.6
I'm trying out some new features, and I've hit a misunderstanding.
I have a .mh_profile which sets up my user-based defaults.
I understand that I can also optionally have a file, whose name is stored
in the $MHSHOW variable, which (if it exists) will read a secondary user
profile specifically for the mhshow program.
However, acording to the mh-profile man page
After consulting .mh_profile, some programs read an optional profile
specified by a program-specific environment variable [...]
The first occurrence of a component is used, e.g. .mh_profile's trumps
$MHSHOW's.
so I seem to be missing the point. I can have my list of defaults
in .mh_profile, and I can have a different set of options specific
to my current environment, but my specific options won't override
the general ones?
My goal here is that, 95% of the time, I want to read my email with
mhshow-show-text/html: lynx %f
but the other 5% of the time, when I'm on a specific computer (my laptop)
in a specific location (my dining room), I want to read my email with
mhshow-show-text/html: dillo %f
So it seems logical to me that my .mh_profile should include
mhshow-show-text/html: lynx %f
and my $MHSHOW alternative-profile would include
mhshow-show-text/html: dillo %f
for only those times I want to use it.
But it appears that any option that I want to have two possible
entries for, I need to *always* use the $MHSHOW option to select my
profile? That seems ... like overkill.
So what am I missing? What is the proper way to have a default option,
with an override that I want to use only occasionally?
Thanks.
--hymie! http://lactose.homelinux.net/~hymie
hymie(_at_)lactose(_dot_)homelinux(_dot_)net
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