Re: [Nmh-workers] .mh_profile question

2015-02-03 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
If we had infinite volunteer resources, what about creating a completely new (and unified across all of MH) language? It would be accessed through a new file other than .mh_profile -- say, .mh_new_profile, but better named. B-) This was the motivation for the lmh branch in the git repo. This

Re: [Nmh-workers] .mh_profile question

2015-02-03 Thread Bob Carragher
On Mon, 02 Feb 2015 22:08:54 -0500 Ken Hornstein sez: > >Maybe someone can see what I'm doing stupidly here as I'm > >going blind. I have some folders that have ? messages > >that I don't want to break up, so I want to go to a 5 digit > >message number in scan > > Others have already answer

Re: [Nmh-workers] .mh_profile question

2015-02-02 Thread Jon Steinhart
Ken Hornstein writes: > >Maybe someone can see what I'm doing stupidly here as I'm going blind. > >I have some folders that have ? messages that I don't want to break > >up, so I want to go to a 5 digit message number in scan > > Others have already answered you, but to expand some more ... >

Re: [Nmh-workers] .mh_profile question

2015-02-02 Thread Ken Hornstein
>Maybe someone can see what I'm doing stupidly here as I'm going blind. >I have some folders that have ? messages that I don't want to break >up, so I want to go to a 5 digit message number in scan Others have already answered you, but to expand some more ... Arguments in the profile (as Robe

Re: [Nmh-workers] .mh_profile question

2015-01-31 Thread Robert Elz
Date:Sat, 31 Jan 2015 14:06:21 -0800 From:Jon Steinhart Message-ID: <201501312206.t0vm6lsx009...@darkstar.fourwinds.com> | Thanks, that works. Seems odd to have it work one way but not the other. This was discussed (for one reason or another, I've forgotten) not a

Re: [Nmh-workers] .mh_profile question

2015-01-31 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Jon, > Seems odd to have it work one way but not the other. ~/.mh_profile parsing is done by the same code as email header parsing, and that doesn't provide a means to escape the space and stop it separating words. There's no shell quote processing, etc. I think that's what Ken always says,

Re: [Nmh-workers] .mh_profile question

2015-01-31 Thread Jon Steinhart
David Levine writes: > Jon wrote: > > > into my .mh_profile, it says > > > > scan: bad message list %>%<{replied}-%?{encrypted}E%| > > > > Is there something special that I need to do in .mh_profile? Does > > something need extra escaping? > > Yes, but I don't know if it's possible. How about p

Re: [Nmh-workers] .mh_profile question

2015-01-31 Thread David Levine
Jon wrote: > into my .mh_profile, it says > > scan: bad message list %>%<{replied}-%?{encrypted}E%| > > Is there something special that I need to do in .mh_profile? Does > something need extra escaping? Yes, but I don't know if it's possible. How about putting it into a new file and using -form

[Nmh-workers] .mh_profile question

2015-01-31 Thread Jon Steinhart
Maybe someone can see what I'm doing stupidly here as I'm going blind. I have some folders that have ? messages that I don't want to break up, so I want to go to a 5 digit message number in scan If I type the following, taken from /etc/nmh/scan.defaults with the 4 changed to 5 it works fine.