Hamish == Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hamish On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 09:16:38PM +1100, Brian May wrote:
Programs like reportbug, netscape, err I mean Mozilla, etc,
wouldn't have to be manually configured for a default MUA. Nor
would these programs have to support
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 02:46:53PM +1100, Brian May wrote:
I think you mean you use an editor to edit it first, which IMHO is a
very primitive implementation of an MUA. ie, you can't edit the
message to add a 'X-Debbugs-CC' header, for instance. Nor can you add
MIME attachments either (not
Gerfried Fuchs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And, on the other hand, if you have any packages that are using hard
coded pagers, editors or so into it's rc files waste a thought about
changing it to the alternatives name ``pager'' and ``editor''. I really
think that this should be a little more used
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 11:16:28PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
In Wed, 6 Sep 2000 23:10:32 +1100 Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] cum
veritate scripsit :
I looked at that configuration file. It appeared to me that
there was enough info in there for reportbug just to use
In Wed, 6 Sep 2000 23:10:32 +1100 Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] cum
veritate scripsit :
I looked at that configuration file. It appeared to me that
there was enough info in there for reportbug just to use
/usr/sbin/sendmail to deliver it, rather than using an MUA at all.
Some people do
On Thu 07 Sep 2000, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
In Wed, 6 Sep 2000 23:10:32 +1100 Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] cum
veritate scripsit :
I looked at that configuration file. It appeared to me that
there was enough info in there for reportbug just to use
/usr/sbin/sendmail to deliver it,
Gerfried == Gerfried Fuchs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Gerfried On 05 Sep 2000, Andreas Fuchs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Today, Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do most mail
readers have the same command line interface? Perhaps, but I
really doubt that news readers do.
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 09:20:12AM +1100, Brian May wrote:
How about defining a standard interface and using wrapper scripts
to convert the parameters?
OK, but what problem are we trying to solve with this solution?
ie what is the advantage of /etc/alternatives for MUAs anyway?
Hamish
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Hamish == Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hamish On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 09:20:12AM +1100, Brian May wrote:
How about defining a standard interface and using wrapper
scripts to convert the parameters?
Hamish OK, but what problem are we trying to solve with this
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 09:16:38PM +1100, Brian May wrote:
Programs like reportbug, netscape, err I mean Mozilla, etc, wouldn't
have to be manually configured for a default MUA. Nor would these
programs have to support every MUA on the planet. Have a look at
/etc/reportbug.conf for a sample of
Hi!
Today I stumbled across my .muttrc and found that I've hardcoded the
pager (w3m ;) and the editor (vim :) into it. On the other hand I find
the alternatives-mechanismus really useful so I changed it to pager and
editor which works really fine.
Now there doesn't seem to be an
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 12:52:51PM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
Now there doesn't seem to be an alternative for the MUAs or the NUAs.
I'd really like to have that in there so that packages like pinfo or
muttzilla (just for an example) could work out of the box without
needing to twitch with
Today, Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do most mail readers have the same command line interface? Perhaps,
but I really doubt that news readers do.
Not even mail readers do, AFAIK. Console readers have the mail(1)
interface to stick to, but if it comes to an x MUA...
It would really
On 05 Sep 2000, Andreas Fuchs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Today, Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do most mail readers have the same command line interface? Perhaps,
but I really doubt that news readers do.
*scratches* Uhm, right, I haven't thought about that *damnit* It
sounded so
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