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[bug-mailutils] Re: Buglets in Mailutils MH
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Peter S Galbraith |
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[bug-mailutils] Re: Buglets in Mailutils MH |
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Tue, 19 Aug 2003 09:41:59 -0400 |
Sergey Poznyakoff <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 0) As I said in another message, the components file wasn't copied to
> > the etcdir in `make install'. Neither was a replgroupcomps file
> > which you don't seem to have.
>
> Yes, it will be fixed.
:-)
> > 1) If I leave the cc: line empty, nmh will strip it in the out-going
> > message, since it wasn't used. It's still listed in this message by
> > mh-mu.
>
> Hmm, is that critical?
No, but it looks better without it.
> > 2) MH-E scans the last 200 messages by default. This doesn't work in
> > mu-mh:
>
> I'm going to fix it today.
:-)
> > 3) Do you have a timeline on implementing `ali'? It's it going to be a
> > while then we should implement a by-pass in MH-E when mu-mh is used.
>
> Yes, I'll add it to the repository by the end of this week.
Wow.
> > FYI, The only bits of your patch that were still relevant after my
> > initilization code overhaul were for scan error in mh-e.el (applied) and
> > for pick in mh-pick.el. I haven't done pick yet. I need to understand
> > the single dash stuff that you added first
>
> Do you mean the changes to mh-pick-regexp-builder?
Yup.
> These add
> the command line options necessary to search for arbitrary
> components. All implementations of pick have special options
> -cc, -date, -from and -subject that allow to search for corresponding
> components. Any other component is searched using option --COMPNAME,
> for example: `pich --x-mailer mh-e'. Mailutils `pick' supports this
> option using a certain kludge that I've described in one of my
> previous postings, but it prefers the following syntax for this
> purpose: `--component=COMPNAME --pattern=PATTERN'.
>
> So, the changes in question allow you to specify any component in the
> search-pattern buffer (along with the default five components it
> presents). Then this component is searched using a command line syntax
> proper for the current implementation of MH.
>
> Regards,
> Sergey
Thanks Sergey. I understand the patch now.
Peter
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