Re: [bug-mailutils] mailutils-mh: Compatibility with new MH-E

[Mark D. Baushke]

Sergey Poznyakoff <address@hidden> writes:

> By the way, is it possible to add some switch to MH-E that would make
> it use GNU long options when interfacing with the Mailutils
> implementation of MH? 

Possible? Yes I suppose it may be possible. In the end, MH-E is just a
software interface to MH and nmh today and may be altered. However, I
think it would be useful if you could agree with the nmh folks on the
nature of the new flags.

> This would be especially useful with the `pick' utility, since the
> RAND syntax `pick --some-field-name PATTERN' conflicts with the usual
> long option paradigm. Right now I have implemented a workaround that
> forces `pick' to recognize only old syntax when its stdin is not
> connected to a terminal (as it is when invoked by MH-E).

This will impact how the functions:

     mh-pick-construct-regexp
     mh-pick-regexp-builder
     
in mh-pick.el work and possibly other places in the code as well. Moving
toward changing the nature of the command-line interface will likely need
a fair amount of work.

        -- Mark