Hi,
[email protected] wrote:
|I just subscribed to submit this tiny patch to clarify the manpage
|about behaviour of mailx called without options and no mailbox present
|(or empty).
|
|It nearly drove me nuts, apparently doing different as in
yep, that feeling i can easily recall.
*emptystart* is POSIX but not traditional BSD Mail – i think there
a non-existing mailbox can't be helped at all ("no mail for.."),
otherwise *emptystart* isn't needed since the mailbox is simply
opened, wether it is an empty file or not. Later BSD Mail
versions then introduced the -H switch of our mailer to have an
option to circumvent the latter (and more). (And S-nail then
added -L for fine-tuning.)
|the manpage, i suspected almost everything: Undocumented vendor
|patches, /etc/alternatives bullshit, revision mismatch between binary
|and manpage; only because I didn't read the option descriptions.
|Personally I think it should be documented alot more prominent.
I felt that way, too, for S-nail. Also in the ArchLinux Wiki[1].
If you are such a new user of (BSD Mail /) Heirloom mailx (/
S-nail) and are interested it may be helpful to read the
introductional sections of the S-nail manual, it is fully
cross-referenced and available online[2]. Of course S-nail is
several thousand commits ahead of Heirloom, :), but it'll surely
give a good introduction. (There is a lot of room for
improvements, the next (and i hope for a long time the last)
release of S-nail will offer a single list of options, for
example, currently they are still divided into a list of binary
and value options, which is anything else but helpful for just
_any_ user.)
[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/S-nail#Interactive_usage
[2] http://sdaoden.users.sourceforge.net/code-nail.html
(Really i think [2] would be a good read; [1] is lagging behind
currently after surging ahead for quite a while – i would prefer
being able to simply copy and paste the manual into that Wiki, or
at least a few sections of it, but… Maybe there will be
a mdoc(7)-to-wiki conversion possible at some point in the far
future.)
Ciao,
--steffen
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