Re: [Nmh-workers] repl -convertargs support committed on branch

[David Levine]

iCalendar attachment support has been committed on the
convertargs branch.  docs/contrib/replaliases has some
handy shell aliases (functions, actually).  mhical(1)
has been added.

This introduces one change in default behavior:  mhshow/show
will display a formatted version of iCalednar (.ics)
attachments instead of their raw text.

Again, this is just on the convertargs branch.

David


I wrote:

> I just committed support for repl -convertargs on a new
> branch, convertargs.  It works pretty much as planned:
>
>     http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/nmh-workers/2014-11/msg00076.html
>
> except that it's not enabled by default.  Maybe someday that
> could be done by having repl insert Nmh-mhbuild-text/html: and
> Nmh-mhbuild-text/plain: pseudoheaders in every draft.
>
> This support doesn't introduce any backward incompatibility.
>
> Per later discussion, if there's a Content-Type + blank line
> header at the beginning of the converted output, that will be
> used.  And I use sed to insert the leading "> " in replied-to
> text.  That's in mhn.defaults, so users can override it with
> anything they want in their profile.
>
> The easiest way to use repl -convertargs is to source
> docs/contrib/replaliases, see it for details.
>
> I noticed one very minor annoyance while integrating this.
> Maybe it'll help if I retrace my steps.  First, this is how to
> reply to a text/html message:
>
>     $ repl -filter mhl.replywithoutbody -convertargs text/html
>     ''
>
> That results in an unhelpful draft with no body.  The user
> could run mime at the What now? prompt, but that's an extra
> step.  So I added this to that command line:
>
>     -editor mhbuild
>
> and this to my profile:
>
>     mhbuild-next: $EDITOR
>
> That works.  I wanted to add that mhbuild-next line to
> mhn.defaults so that users wouldn't have to (and mhbuild
> shouldn't normally be run twice).  But that doesn't work
> because whatnow(1) doesn't read mhn.defaults.  Maybe we could
> change that if there's interest, though I haven't thought
> through for any possible side effects.  So the user is left
> with these choices:  1) run mime at the What now? prompt 2)
> add mhbuild-next: $EDITOR or equivalent to profile and add
> -edit mhbuild to command line 3) add -edit mhbuild to command
> line and run "-e[dit] $EDITOR" or equivalent at the What now?
> prompt
>
> This commit does not support iCalendar attachments.  That's on
> its way.
>
> David