Re: [Nmh-workers] (no subject)

[Ken Hornstein]

>> Meh.  Everywhere else nmh presents MIME parts in the order in
>> which they occur in the message; from what I can tell,
>> multipart/alternative was reversed just so the display code
>> would be easier to write.  This seems like a lousy exception.
>
>mhlist is a counterexample.  And a good one.

It's obvious that was done because otherwise, you could never give a
consistent -part switch (it wouldn't make any sense if mhlist showed
a part number of 1, but in mhshow it was really 2).  This was the way
it was back when there was just a "mhn" command, and that just was
carried forward.

--Ken