Thus spake paul vixie: > > On 2/4/2012 5:47 PM, Joel Uckelman wrote: > > Having other nmh command understand pick syntax might be uesful. But > > removing pick would not be. Because message numbers are also filenames, > > pick is handy for generating lists of filenames to be consumed by other > > non-nmh programs. > > this draws two comments from me. first, message numbers are relative > file names. i always use mhpath.
I'm a little embarassed to say that I didn't know about mhpath---I'd been using pick from the same directory as the message files, or using sed to build the paths for me. Thanks! > second, message numbers are currently file names. if we succeed in > abstracting things correctly, they might refer to imap objects some day. > in which case i suppose that mhpath will emit imap: url's? Having IMAP URLs would mean that we interoperate with IMAP, which would make me so happy that I would not mind having pick return them. -- J. _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
