I would like to suggest that mhl, show, mhshow, scan and any other mhl program
that displays a message, all have a flag, that would take an argument
specifying how the time of the message was to be displayed. It would specify
one of:
The time of the message, here, where I am
or
>I would like to suggest that mhl, show, mhshow, scan and any other mhl program
>that displays a message, all have a flag, that would take an argument
>specifying how the time of the message was to be displayed. It would specify
>one of:
I don't have a problem with that in theory, but practical ma
Ken wrote:
> that suggests to me that we should write some well-commented
> examples and distribute them, so users can easily pick which
> one they should use
I agree completely.
> The thing that I wonder about is, not everyone might know to
> look in $(mhdir)/etc for those examples. So a sugge
Ken Hornstein writes:
>>I would like to suggest that mhl, show, mhshow, scan and any other mhl program
>>that displays a message, all have a flag, that would take an argument
>>specifying how the time of the message was to be displayed. It would specify
>>one of:
>
>I don't have a problem with tha
>In the meantime, would somebody be willing to send me one that does
>elapsed time? I don't much care about the time unit, though I prefer
>days.
Here you go. This comes courtesy of Oliver Kiddle; he sent this to me
in private email, but he did say he's fine with me making it more widely
availabl
It occurs to me that it might be useful to break this down a bit, to provide
some explanation as to what's going on here. You can use fmttest on it to
get the instructions this decodes into, but that's not always that useful
unless you've been inside of the format code a lot.
- Date:formatfield="
-workers@nongnu.org
> Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2015 23:07:40 -0500
> Subject: Re: [Nmh-workers] Back to Dates
>
> It occurs to me that it might be useful to break this down a bit, to provide
> some explanation as to what's going on here. You can use fmttest on it to
> get the i
Ken Hornstein writes:
>>In the meantime, would somebody be willing to send me one that does
>>elapsed time? I don't much care about the time unit, though I prefer
>>days.
>
>Here you go. This comes courtesy of Oliver Kiddle; he sent this to me
>in private email, but he did say he's fine with me m
>[...]
>So, clearly, I'm doing something wrong. Evidently you didn't intend
>your recipe to be a format file. But, then, what did you intend it to be?
My apologies, Norm. I thought it was clear. I did say:
This is actually a line from a mhl file, but it should be
easy to adapt
>My apologies, Norm. I thought it was clear. I did say:
>
> This is actually a line from a mhl file, but it should be
> easy to adapt this to other places:
>
>So you just want the bits inside of the "formatfield" option, without the
>quotes.
Also, you'll want to change every occurren
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