hodges@jessica.Stanford.EDU (Jeff Hodges) (12/01/89)
I'm trying to customize my replcomps file and am wontering what the
following mh-format escapes are supposed to do (they don't seem to be
documented in the man page)...
lit
void
width
Additionally, does anyone successfully use the "mymbox" escape; if so, how?
Finally, is there any way to determine if one's address appears in the
"to" or "cc" field of a msg being replied to (note that there could be
several addresses in these fields)?
Thanks,
Jeff Hodges Networking & Communication Systems
Pine Hall, Rm 115
415-723-2452 Stanford CA 94305-4122gregg@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (gregg.g.wonderly) (12/02/89)
From article <7131@portia.Stanford.EDU>, by hodges@jessica.Stanford.EDU (Jeff Hodges): > I'm trying to customize my replcomps file and am wontering what the > following mh-format escapes are supposed to do (they don't seem to be > documented in the man page)... > lit > void > width %(lit some-text) is one use for %(lit). It appears to be in several format files to cure a used to be NULL pointer bug that left the internal string register, str, pointing at garbage. %(void) is used to evaluate an expression. The value of the expression is then used for tests. The difference between %(void(width)) and %(width) is that the first lets you test the value while the second generates the string representing the value in the output stream. Look at the use in the "scan.*" files in the MHETC directory for examples of this usage. %(width) tells you how wide the output device really is. This is only useful for making use of a 132 column terminal vs a 80 column terminal (or something along those lines). > Additionally, does anyone successfully use the "mymbox" escape; if so, how? %<(mymbox{from})%{to}%|%(friendly{from})%> is a pretty classic use of %(mymbox). This is again something like what is in the MHETC/scan* format files. > Finally, is there any way to determine if one's address appears in the > "to" or "cc" field of a msg being replied to (note that there could be > several addresses in these fields)? %(mymbox{to}) tells you if you are the sole receipient of a message. %(mymbox{cc}) tells you if you are one of several receipients of a message. -- ----- gregg.g.wonderly@att.com (AT&T bell laboratories)
schwager@m.cs.uiuc.edu (12/03/89)
> /* ---------- "mh-format questions" ---------- */ > I'm trying to customize my replcomps file and am wontering what the > following mh-format escapes are supposed to do (they don't seem to be > documented in the man page)... > > lit > void > width > > Finally, is there any way to determine if one's address appears in the > "to" or "cc" field of a msg being replied to (note that there could be > several addresses in these fields)? > Wow! The very next batch of MH questions that I was going to ask! Could the replies be posted to the net?? Thanks! Specifically, whenever I want to reply to a message that was sent to 2 or more people, I want to send the reply to everyone BUT myself. Is this possible? Right now I've got a shell script with editing commands to take my name out of the To: and Cc: fields, but it's getting more and more unwieldy, and I still haven't gotten every case. I would think it should be pretty easy to take yourself out of the To: and Cc: fields when you're replying to groups of people, n'est-ce pas? -Mike Schwager INTERNET:schwager@cs.uiuc.edu | "I find it hard to believe you UUCP:{uunet|convex|pur-ee}!uiucdcs!schwager | don't know the beauty you are BITNET:schwager%cs.uiuc.edu@uiucvmd | But if you don't, let me be your University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci. | eyes and enter your darkness So you won't be afraid" -Lou Reed, _Velvet Underground_
pjg@urth.acsu.buffalo.edu (Paul Graham) (12/03/89)
In article <5186@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>, gregg@cbnewsc (gregg.g.wonderly) writes: >%(lit some-text) is one use for %(lit). It appears to be in several format >files to cure a used to be NULL pointer bug that left the internal string >register, str, pointing at garbage. aha. it's not that i'm an mh dilettante but i guess am. i just used that contruct to bandage a formataddr problem on my sun4's running mh6.6 but clearly the problem has been fixed. can someone point me to a place where i can find (preferably ftp) some semi-official (or better) patches to mh that fix this and, no doubt, other problems. please send me mail and i'll fend off other requests for the same. if any. --
dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi) (12/07/89)
In article <38200010@m.cs.uiuc.edu> schwager@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes: >Specifically, whenever I want to reply to a message that was sent to 2 or >more people, I want to send the reply to everyone BUT myself. Half an answer from my .mh_profile: repl: -inplace -editor vi -anno -cc all -nocc me -fcc +inbox The "-nocc me" removes me from the list of addressees. The "-fcc +inbox" saves a copy of the outgoing reply. The reply goes to everybody but me. Rahul Dhesi <dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com> UUCP: oliveb!cirrusl!dhesi
bgg@yarra.UUCP (Benjamin G. Golding) (12/08/89)
In article <1155@cirrusl.UUCP> dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi) writes: > In article <38200010@m.cs.uiuc.edu> schwager@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes: >>Specifically, whenever I want to reply to a message that was sent to 2 or >>more people, I want to send the reply to everyone BUT myself. > > Half an answer from my .mh_profile: > > repl: -inplace -editor vi -anno -cc all -nocc me -fcc +inbox > > The "-nocc me" removes me from the list of addressees. It may be useful to add an "Alternate-Mailboxes:" line to your .mh_profile to remove the permutations of your mailbox name that can arrive. I use: Alternate-Mailboxes: bgg@yarra, bgg@yarra.oz, bgg@yarra.oz.au, yarra!bgg which picks up most of the names I get called. Ben.