My script for handling replies relies on the $editalt variable. This
broke recently and git bisect pointed me to commit 25581a94 which makes
-noatfile the default. I don't care too much for the @ file but need
$editalt.
Does -atfile have wider effects than merely disabling the @ file or
is there
Oliver wrote:
My script for handling replies relies on the $editalt variable. This
broke recently and git bisect pointed me to commit 25581a94 which
makes -noatfile the default. I don't care too much for the @ file
but need $editalt.
Does -atfile have wider effects than merely disabling
In the meantime, can you use $mhaltmsg? I'm curious because
maybe we should recommend using that instead of $editalt.
David was nice enough to not mention that the original bug was mine; sorry
about that!
You know, I have no idea why there is both editalt and mhaltmsg; from
looking at the
Ken wrote:
You know, I have no idea why there is both editalt and mhaltmsg; from
looking at the documentation, maybe mhaltmsg is just for whatnowproc?
That makes sense.
Hm. Looking at things further right now mhaltmsg is designed
to be used by things like send (it uses it when doing
$editalt just seems out of place to me. It's the only
lower-case environment variable that doesn't start with mh.
I understand your issue, but we lack a time machine to go back and
find the person responsible to complain about it :-) I see it predates
the conversion of MH to RCS.
Looking at
