Re: [Nmh-workers] odd 1.6 behavior

[Paul Fox]

i think merging mhshow and show would be a worthy 1.7 goal (if it's not
already on the list).  for myself, i never use anything but mhshow, via
a wrapper that turns 'show', 'n', 'p', and a few others shortcuts into
their "mhshow" equivalents (e.g., "mhshow next").  but i assume there's
stuff done by mh's show that i've forgotten about, since i never use it.

paul

jon wrote:
 > I think that this is pretty broken from a user perspective.  Not the current
 > change, but having both show and mhshow.  I would just use mhshow for 
 > everything
 > except that it doesn't do next and prev.  And I can't use show for everything
 > because it doesn't understand -part.  Well, it sort of since "show -part 1"
 > makes message number 1 the current message but that's not the result that I
 > expected either.  And "show -part 2" gives and error message and sets cur to 
 > 2.
 > Seems like a bug.
 > 
 > So while I have no time to pay attention to this or do any work at the 
 > moment,
 > it seems like this is a step along the path to what I suggested years ago.  I
 > would be happier if mhshow got consumed by show.  And happier still if the
 > resultant program could have next and prev arguments to -part so that I could
 > have aliases like nextp which would be "show -part next".  Would eliminate 
 > the
 > pain of having to read and type in part numbers.
 > 

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