Ken> BEFORE 1.6 it certainly wouldn't do that out of the box.
Er I think the key word there was that it'd bring up "something" in a
pager. Not necessarily something useful, but it was less aggravating
than throwing up a new window for every message part in the 100 emails I
was skimming :-/ I had customised things a bit to work around that.
You're more patient than I; I always found it terrible because a new pager
was invoked for each MIME part.
As a cheap alternative to a local build of the whole thing, I pulled
down your git repo and ran mhn.defaults.sh from there, to create a
personal mhn.defaults.
That leaves me in a much improved situation, behaving as advertised;
thanks a lot for the super fast response by the way.
Glad that helped!
Building on my original question though, is there any kind of wiki or
Nmh-specific FAQ for tips and tricks?
Weeellll .... not really. The MH FAQ has seen some love lately, because
Bill Wohler asked for some input and I gave him some. But those changes
actually haven't made it into the tree, unfortunately.
For example,
- I really like MessageName (undocumented?), which you can use to see
message numbers now that mhshow doesn't show 'em by default (thanks
for writing about that elsewhere!);
MessageName is totally documented in mhl(1); it's just not well known.
Really, the whole mess about the split between show and mhshow needs to
be cleaned up.
- I'd be interested to see other people's recipes for rendering
diverse formats as text;
I can't speak for anyone else ... but at least for me, I've found that
the "text" parts are ones I want to see, and non-text parts? Not so
much. I mean, sure, I want to save and work on Word/PDFs, but usually
with a dedicated tool.
- and I'd also like to see past ideas for rewriting the message part
headers so they stand out a bit more (mhshow.marker seems to only
change the display of unshown parts??)..
Sigh. The code to do that went into nmh after the 1.6 release cycle
started. So, next release.
--Ken
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