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[Nmh-workers] Documenting @folder WAS Re: relative message numbers?
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Jerrad Pierce |
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[Nmh-workers] Documenting @folder WAS Re: relative message numbers? |
Date: |
Tue, 16 Oct 2012 09:38:01 -0400 |
>Is `scan +/tmp/foo' documented anywhere, i.e. the ability to treat any
>directory as a folder, not just one under Path? And address@hidden' after
>that..
Doh. Was planned but slipped my mind. Here are revised versions.
1) Insert into nmh.1 near:
Commands which take a message number as an argument ( scan, show, repl,
...
Commands which take a range of message numbers ( rmm, scan, show, ...)
something like the following:
Commands which take a folder name (inc, refile, scan, sortm, ...)
will accept the folder name in two formats: '+folder' and '@folder'.
'+folder' specifies a folder underneath the Path defined in your nmh
profile e.g; with the default '''Path: Mail''', '+folder' tells nmh to
use
''~/Mail/folder''. '@folder' specifies a path relative to the current
folder
specified in your ''context'' file e.g; with '''Current-Folder: inbox''',
and the same profile, '@folder' tells nmh to use ''~/Mail/inbox/folder''.
If folder begins with ''.'' or ''/'' when using ''@folder', the folder
is interpeted as a specific path to a directory on the filesystem rather
than a relative folder location e.g; scan @.` scans the current
directory,
and `refile @/tmp` refiles into the temp directory.
2) It might also be worth insertng into the CONTEXT heading of the relevant
commands (inc, refile. scan, sortm, etc.) a blurb along the lines of:
The current context is used to expand relative folders supplied with
the prefix ''@'' instead of ''+'', by prepending it to the specified
folders; unless folder begins with ''.'' or ''/'' in which case the
argument is interpreated as a specific path to a directory.
Re: [Nmh-workers] relative message numbers?, David Levine, 2012/10/14