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Re: [Nmh-workers] I'm confused
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Jon Steinhart |
Subject: |
Re: [Nmh-workers] I'm confused |
Date: |
Fri, 14 Sep 2012 12:53:54 -0700 |
Lyndon Nerenberg writes:
>
> On 2012-09-14, at 12:14 PM, Jon Steinhart wrote:
>
> > All you need to do is figure out how to track the current working directory!
>
> The back end programs would exec() from the CWD, so they could
> pwd(1)/getcwd(3)
> as required. Obviously 'cd' must remain a built-in command, just as in the
> shells.
> Is there another use case I'm not seeing?
>
> The rest of the commands could be stripped out as standalone commands under
> (say) /usr/local/nmh/libexec/whatnow. And then, anything typed at the whatnow
> prompt would exec() /usr/local/nmh/libexec/whatnow/<cmd>, passing any
> arguments
> uninterpreted to the command. This would let sites not only customize the
> existing
> commands, but also to add their own.
>
> A user profile element would let people override the default
> .../libexec/whatnow
> directory with one of their own choosing.
>
> --lyndon
Sounds good to me. Wish I had thought of it.
Jon
- Re: [Nmh-workers] I'm confused, (continued)
- Re: [Nmh-workers] I'm confused, David Levine, 2012/09/13
- Re: [Nmh-workers] I'm confused, David Levine, 2012/09/14
- Re: [Nmh-workers] I'm confused, David Levine, 2012/09/14
- Re: [Nmh-workers] I'm confused, Jon Steinhart, 2012/09/14
- Re: [Nmh-workers] I'm confused, David Levine, 2012/09/14