On 16 April 2015 at 14:53, Ken Hornstein <kenh(_at_)pobox(_dot_)com> wrote:
OK. I have MHN set to /home/kevinc/.mh_profile.mhn in my
environment. I renamed that file and MHN now points at something
non-existent. I suppose it would be better to unset MHN. I've
attached the file to feed your curiosity. Trying to open an
Opera browser for text/html wasn't so great, for instance.
Okay, but I am curious ... you actually invoke mhn? I ask because most of
everything should call mhshow by default, and you'd have to work to call
mhn (which is the only thing that uses the MHN environment variable).
What do you have in mind, a sanity check flag for mhparam? Maybe
a flag for mhparam that would look in the search PATH and report
preferred, whatever that means, applications for each kind of
task?
Well, good question. First order of business is to understand the problem.
For one, I am puzzled as to why things didn't work out for you. It would
have seemed like mhshow should have been run instead of mhn, and none of
the changes you posted would have changed that.
I know the text/html was a problem. I expect that non-text
attachments will be unviewable. But, I could forward to a
web email account, if I really needed to see them.
I used to invoke mhn via script. I didn't change much of
anything in my [n]mh configuration as nmh replaced MH. Back then
I'd moved from command line to Xmh, and I eventually moved to
exmh. With Xmh I'd written a launcher script to do things like
printing or uudecoding, etc. When I moved to exmh I reworked
some of that, and rewrote some of it in a Tcl add-on.
I do need to completely rototill my nmh configuration to remove
everything that seems at all specific to the 1990s. Heck, I
probably have some things from the 1980s in there. Anyone use
MH-3 besides me? Of course, I'd barely out of my teen years
then. ;-)
--
Kevin
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