On 2012-03-15, at 11:46 AM, Jon Steinhart wrote: > Sure. But I am still curious as to the purpose intended by @ in the > first place if anybody knows.
>From dist(1): See comp(1) for a description of the -editor and -noedit switches. Note that while in the editor, the message being resent is available through a link named "@" (assuming the default whatnowproc). In addition, the actual pathname of the message is stored in the environment variable $editalt, and the pathname of the folder containing the message is stored in the environment variable $mhfolder. It is provided as a fixed-name alias for the file being edited should you want to run an external command on the composition file. (E.g. '!spell @'.) Remember that this functionality pre-dates widespread availability of job control, or even cursor-addressable terminals (think DecWriter attached to the VAX). The idea is that ./@ will always provide an invariant and memorable name for the composition file. Moving it to `mh-path`/@ defeats that goal. I like Ken's idea about having a switch to turn this on and off. People who don't want/need the link could disable it in .mh_profile. --lyndon _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers