last week i asked about changing the output of 'mhlist -verbose' to "untruncate" some fields.
i've heard nothing back, so i'll push the change. paul i wrote: > but there's one aspect of the mhlist output that i think could change > readily enough. currently, mhlist will truncate certain string fields > to keep the output tabular. in particular, content-types are > truncated to 24 characters, content-descriptions to 36, and rfc-822 > comments on a content-type to 65. > > the content-type limit gets hit pretty easily with application types, > e.g. "application/x-zip-compre". > > i propose eliminating any of the truncations if "-verbose" is given. > example output below -- all of the above-mentioned truncations occur > in part 2. > > output without -verbose is unchanged: > > $ mhlist > msg part type/subtype size description > 4 multipart/signed 13K > 1 text/plain 4608 > 2 application/pkcs7-signat 5958 S/MIME Cryptographic Signature with > > > old output with -verbose, fields truncated: > > $ mhlist -verbose > msg part type/subtype size description > 4 multipart/signed 13K > protocol="application/pkcs7-signature" > micalg="sha-1" > boundary="----=_Part_2919_383128135.1401281510426" > 1 text/plain 4608 > charset="UTF-8" > format="flowed" > delsp="Yes" > 2 application/pkcs7-signat 5958 S/MIME Cryptographic Signature > with > name="smime.p7s" > smime-type="signed-data" > (this is a very long and boring comment that no one really ever > w > > > new output with -verbose, no truncations: > > $ uip/mhlist -verbose > msg part type/subtype size description > 4 multipart/signed 13K > protocol="application/pkcs7-signature" > micalg="sha-1" > boundary="----=_Part_2919_383128135.1401281510426" > 1 text/plain 4608 > charset="UTF-8" > format="flowed" > delsp="Yes" > 2 application/pkcs7-signature 5958 S/MIME Cryptographic Signature > with an augmented description > name="smime.p7s" > smime-type="signed-data" > (this is a very long and boring comment that no one really ever > wants to see, but there you have it) > > > any objections to this? > =---------------------- paul fox, p...@foxharp.boston.ma.us (arlington, ma, where it's 56.7 degrees) _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
