Re: [Nmh-workers] A MH-inspired Maildir handler: coma

[Christian Neukirchen]

Robert Elz <address@hidden> writes:

> In particular, given recent discussions, vi is one of my common tools
> (others prefer different editors, which editor isn't important, substitute
> emacs if you're a heretic, or perhaps something else), and one of my sh funcs
> is "vim" which simply applies vi to a set of MH compatible args, so I can
>       vim last +inbox
> or anything else like that).   And given the editor (whichever editor) and
> a message, I change *anything* in it that I feel needs changing (headers,
> body, anywhere).

vi $(, show last -path)

This works for maildirs as well, but probably messes up any caching done
by applications that read the Maildir.  coma will probably get a command
to force re-caching after such operations.

It would also be not very hard to move/rename the edited messages in a
script.

> Aside from that, all the standard file operation commands get used a lot
> (mv cp ln mkdir ...) and the searching tools (grep, ... - as well as pick,
> depending upon what I need) and various analysis tools (file, size, wc, ...).

All these work as well, but of course grep is only useful for non-MIME mail.

> Just making show scan pick (et al) work is not supplying an MH environment.

That's why I chose Maildir.

> I guess I should really make it also be able to be given vi args, +/ etc,
> but I haven't had that need yet.  I use this A LOT - sometimes just so I
> can read raw mail (without it being decoded at all, and giving me 100%
> confidence that is what is happening) and sometimes to make changes.

For raw mail, in coma you also can use , show -raw.

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