Re: [Nmh-workers] 2 little issues

[Earl Hood]

On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 11:12 PM, Paul Fox wrote:

> the easy thing to do would be to always add an extra newline in front
> of the part marker, but that will cause an extraneous newline in most
> cases.  the more clever thing to do would be to only add it if the
> previous part didn't end in a newline, but that's perhaps a bit hard,
> since the previous part was displayed by other code, far far away.

How about this following: The component that displays the part, appends
a LF only if there is no LF at end of part and if output is to a tty?


> how about this:  when the last character of a text/plain part isn't a
> newline, append the contents of yet-another-mh-format-script, which by
> default would be a just a newline.

I raise the tty check since there could be scenarios where a part may be
validating (say cryptographically), and in such scenarios, the output of
the part would be going to a file or pipe and not directly to a terminal.
Could be a burden dealing with yet-another-mh-format-script when it
seems that the only time a LF should be appended is when dealing with a
tty.

--ewh