On 10 Jul 2014, at 10:17, Ken Hornstein <kenh(_at_)pobox(_dot_)com> wrote:
The same parser that reads email messages (m_getfld()) also reads the
profile (also, it does sequence files). So to truely handle comments
would require changes to m_getfld(), which nobody is itching to do.
In theory we could simply ignore fields which begin with a '#' and not
put them in the profile structure; that might be worth doing. But that
would still not permit '#' as a generic comment character; you'd still
need to have a colon in there. It's one of those old MH things that
isn't wonderful, but none of the fixes are easy.
I knew the second half, but not the first half. Thank you for taking
the time to educate me, and for all your work on nmh.
~Chad
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