Re: [Nmh-workers] Thoughts: header/address parsing

[David Levine]

Norm wrote:

> David Levine <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >3) To not break existing user scripts, width would continue to
> >include the trailing newline.  Add support for an optional
> >profile setting to not include the trailing newline.
> 
> Wouldn't that present the user with a Hobson's choice of not daring
> to use any legacy scripts or to live with always including the
> trailing newline?

That's not my intent, which is:

1) The default would retain the current behavior of counting the
   trailing newline.

2) Optionally, the user could move to the new behavior of not
   counting the trailing newline.

David