Re: [Nmh-workers] Items for nmh 1.7

2014-06-11 Thread Oliver Kiddle
Ken Hornstein wrote: > I don't quite understand how you made it work BEFORE 1.6; mhshow wouldn't > do any character conversion, for one. Also, it still won't reflow text > that's too wide. You could use profile entries like mhshow-charset-iso-8859-1 to run a script that would run iconv. The scrip

Re: [Nmh-workers] Third release candidate for nmh 1.6 now available

2014-06-11 Thread Alexander Zangerl
On Sun, 08 Jun 2014 10:08:12 -0400, Ken Hornstein writes: >I am hoping that this release will be good enough to be the basis of >the 1.6 final release, so I would encourage everyone to download it >and try it out. i've just packaged and uploaded the debian build of this version, and things look pr

Re: [Nmh-workers] Items for nmh 1.7

2014-06-11 Thread Joel Uckelman
Thus spake Ken Hornstein: > > Your problem is probably the same one I ran into; isspace() would interpret > 0xA0 as a non-breaking space and replace it with a "real" space, messing > up UTF-8 sequences. > > This isn't perfect; in a perfect world you'd pull in the bytes and call > wcwidth() on eac

Re: [Nmh-workers] Third release candidate for nmh 1.6 now available

2014-06-11 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Alexander, > e.g. all manpages to go in as whatever.1mh instead of whatever.1 OOI, why's that? And is that a recentish change on Debian as this old Ubuntu doesn't do that. Does that mean co(1) is co.1rcs, etc. too? Cheers, Ralph. ___ Nmh-workers

Re: [Nmh-workers] Third release candidate for nmh 1.6 now available

2014-06-11 Thread Ken Hornstein
>1. the automatic debian build daemons and build environments are very >stripped down, without guarantees wrt. particular locales being configured. > >it makes no sense to attempt the tests that only work if en_US.UTF-8 is >available, so i've made the affected tests check that and skip if >necessar

Re: [Nmh-workers] Items for nmh 1.7

2014-06-11 Thread Ken Hornstein
>You could use profile entries like mhshow-charset-iso-8859-1 to run a >script that would run iconv. The script would sometimes get a filename >and sometimes a command from, e.g, the mhshow-show-text/html profile >entry so it wasn't simple. It is much much simpler now so thanks for the >changes. It

Re: [Nmh-workers] Third release candidate for nmh 1.6 now available

2014-06-11 Thread David Levine
Ken wrote: > I am not sure about that shell syntax; someone else will have to confirm > if it's portable enough. ! isn't portable. Neither is egrep -q. David ___ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinf

Re: [Nmh-workers] Third release candidate for nmh 1.6 now available

2014-06-11 Thread Paul Fox
ken wrote: > >1. the automatic debian build daemons and build environments are very > >stripped down, without guarantees wrt. particular locales being configured. > > > >it makes no sense to attempt the tests that only work if en_US.UTF-8 is > >available, so i've made the affected tests check

Re: [Nmh-workers] Third release candidate for nmh 1.6 now available

2014-06-11 Thread Paul Fox
david wrote: > Ken wrote: > > > I am not sure about that shell syntax; someone else will have to confirm > > if it's portable enough. > > ! isn't portable. Neither is egrep -q. huh. shows what i know. :-) paul =-- paul fox, p...@foxharp.boston.ma.us (arlington, ma,

Re: [Nmh-workers] Third release candidate for nmh 1.6 now available

2014-06-11 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi David, > > I am not sure about that shell syntax; someone else will have to confirm > > if it's portable enough. > > ! isn't portable. Neither is egrep -q. What kind of portability are we aiming at? ! is in POSIX; http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#tag_

Re: [Nmh-workers] Third release candidate for nmh 1.6 now available

2014-06-11 Thread David Levine
Ralph wrote: > Hi David, > > > ! isn't portable. Neither is egrep -q. > > What kind of portability are we aiming at? ! is in POSIX; > http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#tag_ > 18_09_02 > Similarly, `grep -Eq' is too; I should have typed "grep" instead of

Re: [Nmh-workers] Third release candidate for nmh 1.6 now available

2014-06-11 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
On Jun 11, 2014, at 3:54 PM, David Levine wrote: > Pretty much. I test with heirloom sh and posh. So the limits > are reasonably well defined and it's easy to detect attempts to > go outside them. Until we need more, I'd like to stick with them. Just redirect stdout to /dev/null and you can