Re: send(1) and Draft-Folder.

[David Levine]

Ralph wrote:

> So as it stands, the bug is with the man page and Draft-Folder should be
> removed.

I'm not so sure.  I see use cases for Draft-Folder with comp and whom.
I don't with dist, forw, repl, and whatnow.  And I'm not sure about send
given this:

    send with no file argument will query whether the draft is the
    intended file, whereas -draft will suppress this question.

So to send a draft from a draftfolder non-interactively, the user
would have to use "send -draft -draftfolder drafts".  That seems too
cumbersome to me.

There is a typo in the mh-draft man page:

    will  construct the message draft in the ‘draft’ folder using the
    ‘new’ message number.

should say 'drafts' folder given these example profile entries:

    Draft−Folder: drafts
    sendf: −draftfolder +drafts

> This is a perennial problem.  I normally bring up Python's ‘from future
> import ...’ method of requesting new behaviour.

I don't think the benefits are worth the trouble we'd face when
diagnosing user problems.  We'd have to figure out what behavior the
asked for vs what they think they asked for.

David