[comp.emacs] VM tex manual

jeff1@garfield.MUN.EDU (Jeff Sparkes) (05/31/89)

	The following diffs allow the VM manual to be formatted with
TeX. 

	Also, would it be possible to allow automatic determination of
MMDF folders?  This would allow me to read packf'ed MH folders.  Of
course, it would be better (from my point of view) to understand MH
folders as directories, since I archive news in folders, which can get
pretty large.

*** vm.texinfo.orig	Wed May 31 08:45:55 1989
--- vm.texinfo	Wed May 31 08:47:28 1989
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*** 1,4 ****
! @comment -*-Texinfo-*-
  @setfilename vm.info
  @ignore
  This file documents the VM mail reader.
--- 1,4 ----
! \input texinfo.tex @comment -*-Texinfo-*-
  @setfilename vm.info
  @ignore
  This file documents the VM mail reader.
***************
*** 178,184 ****
  works if the variable pop-up-windows's value is non-nil.@refill
  
  @vindex vm-mail-window-percentage
! The variable @{vm-mail-window-percentage} tells VM what percentage of
  the screen should be given the folder display when both it and the
  folder summary are being displayed.  Note that Emacs enforces a minimum
  window sizew limit, so a very high or very low value for this variable
--- 178,184 ----
  works if the variable pop-up-windows's value is non-nil.@refill
  
  @vindex vm-mail-window-percentage
! The variable @var{vm-mail-window-percentage} tells VM what percentage of
  the screen should be given the folder display when both it and the
  folder summary are being displayed.  Note that Emacs enforces a minimum
  window sizew limit, so a very high or very low value for this variable
***************
*** 187,193 ****
  on a 24 line terminal.@refill
  
  @vindex vm-inhibit-startup-message
! A non-@code{nil} value for the variable @{vm-inhibit-startup-message}
  disables the display of the VM's copyright, copying and warranty
  disclaimer.  If you must, set this variable in your own .emacs file;
  don't set it globally for everyone.  Users should be told their rights.
--- 187,193 ----
  on a 24 line terminal.@refill
  
  @vindex vm-inhibit-startup-message
! A non-@code{nil} value for the variable @var{vm-inhibit-startup-message}
  disables the display of the VM's copyright, copying and warranty
  disclaimer.  If you must, set this variable in your own .emacs file;
  don't set it globally for everyone.  Users should be told their rights.
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*** 694,697 ****
  @node Variable Index, Introduction, Command Index, Top
  @unnumbered Variable Index
  @printindex vr
! 
--- 694,697 ----
  @node Variable Index, Introduction, Command Index, Top
  @unnumbered Variable Index
  @printindex vr
! @bye
-- 
Jeff Sparkes	jeff1@garfield.mun.edu || uunet!garfield!jeff1

					

kjones@talos.UUCP (Kyle Jones) (06/02/89)

Jeff Sparkes writes:
 > The following diffs allow the VM manual to be formatted with
 > TeX.

Thanks for the diffs Jeff, and for correcting some typos in the manual.
Dana Chee at Bellcore also did the conversion and sent me diffs, so I'll
be merging the corrections in these and releasing the resulting document
at some point.

 > 	Also, would it be possible to allow automatic determination of
 > MMDF folders?  This would allow me to read packf'ed MH folders.  Of
 > course, it would be better (from my point of view) to understand MH
 > folders as directories, since I archive news in folders, which can get
 > pretty large.

I'm not keen on trying to make VM recongize truly alien folder formats.
MMDF folders were simple; I don't know what a packf'ed MH folder is.

Auto-determination of folder types is fairly simple to implement.  It
only gets complicated when it comes to saving.  This is because the type
of the folder being saved to has to be deterined and the message may
need to be converted.  Ideally this should be done efficiently and
without having to read in the whole folder to decide what to do.
Unfortunately Emacs doesn't have a primitive to read just the first few
bytes of a file.

BTW, there is a mailing list for VM related discussions.  This is
primarily a bug list for people who don't mind testing the incremental
releases that come between the ones that appear here.  Submissions go to
info-vm@cs.odu.edu, requests to join or to be dropped from the list go
to info-vm-request@cs.odu.edu.

kyle jones   <kyle@cs.odu.edu>   ...!uunet!talos!kjones

jeff1@garfield.MUN.EDU (Jeff Sparkes) (06/02/89)

In article <548@talos.UUCP> kjones@talos.UUCP (Kyle Jones) writes:
    > 	Also, would it be possible to allow automatic determination of
    > MMDF folders?  This would allow me to read packf'ed MH folders.  Of
    > course, it would be better (from my point of view) to understand MH
    > folders as directories, since I archive news in folders, which can get
    > pretty large.

   I'm not keen on trying to make VM recongize truly alien folder formats.
   MMDF folders were simple; I don't know what a packf'ed MH folder is.

Well, they are delineated by ^A^A^A^A, so I thought they were the same
as MMDF, but I don't know for sure.

-- 
Jeff Sparkes	jeff1@garfield.mun.edu || uunet!garfield!jeff1