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[bug-mailutils] Bill Wohler: Re: Error in Manual
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d.henman |
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[bug-mailutils] Bill Wohler: Re: Error in Manual |
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Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:05:06 +0900 |
There is some debate on what to call the Gnu Mailtuils MH program suite in
MH-e. Since you are all involved with Mailutils I thought that you should
read about what is going on regarding the naming convention from witin MH-E and
comment make comments if you wish.
After collecting your comments I will forward them to the mh-e list or you can
mail your comments there directly if you wish. (I think).. to
mh-e-devel AT lists DOT sourceforge DOT net
This is the name for setting MH-E to use Mailutils MH variant.
It is currently: "mu-mh".... though the manual and a doc string had it
wrong....
I suggested to change the name to "mailutils", only.
And one suggestion to change it to mailutils, but leave mu-mh for backwards
compatibility.
I also make a suggestion for gmh (Gnu Mail Handler) not liking long strings
myself and believe that calling it Mailutils is like naming America the World,
which it is only a small part. But, in context with it being a MH-E start up
variable it makes sen
se.....
Please let me know if you feel strongly about the matter or have better ideas..
Regards,
Darel Henman
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d.henman <address@hidden> wrote:
> Given that the source code in "mh-e.el" states on line # 873 (or nearby)
>
> .... Currently known variants are 'MH, 'nmh, and 'mu-mh."
>
> I would suggest that the end of the 8th paragraph of page 5 (Section:
> "Getting Started") be changed from:
>
> ..." set mh-variant to 'mailutils'." to --> " set mh-variant to 'mu-mh'."
Good catch. I also see mailutils in the docstring for the mh-variant
option.
Actually, I think it might even be better to update
mh-variant-mu-mh-info and change the variant member of the alias from
mu-mh to mailutils to match the documentation. I think the term
"mailutils" would be more descriptive to a naive user than "mu-mh". Any
opposed?
Darel, could you please try this (mh-e.el:801) and let me know if it
works for you? I'm assuming that it should change the content in the
drop down list for the mh-variant option from mu-mh to mailutils too.
> Since this is regarding the manual, I don't know whether to file a bug
> report or not. Please advise on the correct procedure for pointing out
> problems in the manual..
Bugs in the manual can be reported as other bugs. Please wander over to
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=13357&atid=113357, create a new
bug, and specify a Category of Documentation. Thanks! (Although if the
consensus says to update the code to match the documentation instead,
then I'll flip the Category.)
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