[Nmh-workers] Request for new command: addresses

[norm]

The forwarded message, below, from Ralph Corderoy shows that there is already
code in the source to repl that does all that I'm asking for. So perhaps,
maybe, perchance, it might, I hope, not be very much trouble to write a
command: addresses.

The command would operate on one or more messages. Its arguments would be like
the arguments of almost all the nmh commands that operate on one more more
messages, with the default being cur. It would output, to its stdout, all the
addressees, including comments, of all the messages. There need be no
guaranteed order. Nor need there be any culling of duplicates. I don't require
but would not object to support of -cc all/to/cc/me -nocc all/to/cc/me.


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Hi Norm,

> > That puts multiple addresses on the same line, delimited by commas.
> > But commas can also occur in comments, so I would have to go to some
> > trouble to parse the output. Is there a variant that would put each
> > address on on a separate line?  I tried sprinkling '\n's in your
> > format string, to no avail.
>
> Unfortunately ... mh-format(5) doesn't really have the ability to
> parse multiple addresses.

repl(1) does.  Does

    yes n |
    repl -cc all -query -editor false 2>/dev/null |
    sed -r 's/\<Reply to ([^?]+)\? /\1\n/g'

help?  It leaves an abandoned draft behind for later clear-up.

Cheers, Ralph.

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