Re: [Nmh-workers] Message with repeated content

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Paul,

> Ken wrote:
> > I had to experiment a little bit for this; it turns out a profile
> > entry in specified in MHSHOW overrides things in mhn.defaults, but
> > NOT things in your .mh_profile.

So the order is .mh_profile, $MHSHOW, mhn.defaults.

> this paragraph is cumbersome -- perhaps someone can help simplify it?
>
>     Profile Lookup
> 
>     Some nmh programs will look in more than just the user's .mh_profile
>     for profile entries.  In particular, mhbuild, mhshow, mhstore, and
>     mhn will also all look in a file specified by a program-specific
>     environment variable (see below), and after that in the
>     system-installed profile (/usr/local/nmh.git/etc/mhn.defaults).
>     (The mhfixmsg program is similar, but doesn't consult an
>     environment variable.)  The first match found for a particular
>     component will be used, allowing user-supplied entries to override
>     those that are system-supplied.  A profile component with a blank
>     value field will "hide" any later occurrences of the component,
>     and will make the entry appear to be absent.

How about

    After .mh_profile,
    some programs read an optional profile specified by a
    program-specific environment variable,
    and then the system-wide profile %etcdir%/mhn.defaults.
    These programs are mhbuild, mhshow, mhstore, and mhn.
    mhfixmsg is similar, but has no optional profile.

    The first occurrence of a component is used,
    e.g.\& .mh_profile's trumps $MHSHOW's.
    A component with no value still stops further occurrences being used,
    but is considered absent.

Cheers, Ralph.