Re: [Nmh-workers] Conflict between mime command and attach

2013-12-11 Thread Paul Fox
david wrote: Ken wrote: Can the people who want to have attach append mhbuild directives explain what their thinking is, specifically why they think their approach is preferrable? I went back and looked at the thread very carefully, and none of the proponents of this approach

Re: [Nmh-workers] Conflict between mime command and attach

2013-12-11 Thread David Levine
Paul wrote: that's an interesting point, and i just realized that it's one reason i've never been comfortable with attach. my editor supports enough filename completion that when inserting the mhbuild directive (via a helper script), i can be sure that the filename is spelled correctly and

Re: [Nmh-workers] Conflict between mime command and attach

2013-12-11 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Ken, The reason this is cropping up now is that we want to get to the point where a MIME headers are always generated (I assume this is non-controversial). Looks down. Mumbles No. Scuffs foot. Using the tools we have, this means running mhbuild. This was never designed to be run all

Re: [Nmh-workers] Conflict between mime command and attach

2013-12-11 Thread Jon Steinhart
Ralph Corderoy writes: Hi Ken, The reason this is cropping up now is that we want to get to the point where a MIME headers are always generated (I assume this is non-controversial). Looks down. Mumbles No. Scuffs foot. No, I don't always want MIME headers. I'm old-fashioned and

Re: [Nmh-workers] Conflict between mime command and attach

2013-12-11 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Jon, No, sorry, when I said edit I was referring to a whatnow-entry to put me back in vi so I can read-only peruse the outcome of mime. My intent is always to have mime do the work; if something's not right I go back to pre-mime and fix it because mhbuild could always do want I want

Re: [Nmh-workers] Conflict between mime command and attach

2013-12-11 Thread Jon Steinhart
Ralph Corderoy writes: Hi Jon, No, sorry, when I said edit I was referring to a whatnow-entry to put me back in vi so I can read-only peruse the outcome of mime. My intent is always to have mime do the work; if something's not right I go back to pre-mime and fix it because mhbuild

Re: [Nmh-workers] Conflict between mime command and attach

2013-12-11 Thread Paul Fox
david wrote: Paul wrote: that's an interesting point, and i just realized that it's one reason i've never been comfortable with attach. my editor supports enough filename completion that when inserting the mhbuild directive (via a helper script), i can be sure that the filename