On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 19:23, Jeffrey Honig
<address@hidden> wrote:
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 19:17, Ken Hornstein
<address@hidden> wrote:
>Sorry, I forgot to mention that I tried that already...
Sorry Jeff, I should have guessed that. I just thought maybe you weren't
familiar with "git blame".
>I'm going to peruse here to see if there is some explaination of why it's
>that way and if the reason is still valid:
>
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/rand-mh/
I was curious about this as well, so I took a look. I see there's
still call to m_foil() in post back in MH 5. So I am guessing the
answer is, "we've always done it that way". I see that the READ-ME
for MH 5 is dated ... sweet Jesus, January 19th, 1985. Suddenly I
That's about when I started using MH and mh-e... Were you even born? ;-)
feel young again! There are a few ChangeLog entries that imply
that the m_foil() code was added by Marshall Rose, and he's still
alive, isn't he? If people care, someone could always email him
and ask him about it (note: I am NOT volunteering; I have nothing
against Marshall Rose, I'm just not motivated enough to bother).
He's around. I'll e-mail him.
Here's MTR's answer:
``when you run mh commands in a script, you want all the defaults to be what the man page says. when you run a command by hand, then you want your own defaults...
/mtr''