Re: comp man page

2020-07-30 Thread Bob Carragher
On Wed, 29 Jul 2020 11:02:49 -0400 Ken Hornstein sez: > >As a user who _barely_ uses more than the basic features of NMH, > >I was completely unaware of all this. (That is my fault, of > >course. B-) The SYNOPSIS section does not show that "-use" > >optionally takes an argument. > > Well, so,

Re: comp man page

2020-07-29 Thread Ken Hornstein
>As a user who _barely_ uses more than the basic features of NMH, >I was completely unaware of all this. (That is my fault, of >course. B-) The SYNOPSIS section does not show that "-use" >optionally takes an argument. Well, so, here's the thing ... -use doesn't actually take an optional argumen

Re: comp man page

2020-07-29 Thread Bob Carragher
se the "-file" option; like I said "reinventing the wheel." B-) I just tried it with an argument, and it appears comp(1) treats that like a message number or list: $ scan +inbox 4 4+ 20/07/28 Ken Hornstein Re: comp man page<<>There is a nice f

Re: comp man page

2020-07-28 Thread Ken Hornstein
>There is a nice feature for comp that I can't find in its man page. If the >user's ~/.mh_profile has a Draft-folder: entry (I don't know what happens if >it doesn't.) then if comp has a "-use" flag, comp takes on optional >argument: A message number in the folder designated by ~/.mh_profile from >

comp man page

2020-07-28 Thread norm
There is a nice feature for comp that I can't find in its man page. If the user's ~/.mh_profile has a Draft-folder: entry (I don't know what happens if it doesn't.) then if comp has a "-use" flag, comp takes on optional argument: A message number in the folder designated by ~/.mh_profile from which