Ralph Corderoy <ralph(_at_)inputplus(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk> writes:
You know, just out loud ... it wouldn't surprise me if it only happens
with lines that start with "#"; I bet even though directives are
turned off, it's seeing a backslash as the directive line continuation
character.
Indeedy. But presumably Tom is running with -nodirectives or uses an
`#off' in his draft?
No, and no. I never even heard of -nodirectives, and don't see any such
thing in the "send" man page. As for #off, why should I be expecting to
have to put directives into a plain text message?
The workflow I'm accustomed to is that, if I've put any directives into
my message, I run mhbuild on them explicitly (using C-c C-e in emacs
MH-Letter mode). If I haven't done that, I would really rather that
lines that happen to start with '#' not be considered magic.
Looking at the send man page, it claims to invoke mhbuild with -auto,
which mhbuild's man page suggests implies -nodirectives, but that
evidently isn't the behavior I'm getting.
In a different line of thinking: if mhbuild did take #define as a
directive, why didn't it barf on an unrecognized directive?
regards, tom lane
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