Ken Hornstein writes:
Is any "whatnow" program supposed to just assume the draft is either the
appropriately named "draft" or "repl", or if a draft folder is involved,
assume it is the "cur" in that folder?
FWIW, it seems that what other front-ends do is assume the draft is
"cur" in the draft folder (exmh) or they try to manipulate the component
file directly (MH-E, but that causes problems and they had to change
it). The -build switch was put into place for "comp" just for those
front-ends, and I believe -build already has been in repl for a while
now.
It's not documented, unfortunately, but whatnow is called with the "mhdraft"
environment variable pointed to the correct filename.
Thanks, I tried it and it works well!
Seems odd those other front-ends didn't try to do the same thing
I'm doing, but maybe the "mhdraft" env variable feature was added later
or they just aren't as Paranoid as I am. ;-)
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