Re: [Nmh-workers] I'm confused

[Jon Steinhart]

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