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

[Mark D. Baushke]

Sergey Poznyakoff <address@hidden> writes:

> > 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.
> 
> OK. Can I send you a patch?

Yes. Send the patch to address@hidden ... we will
probably end up with a change to how we use our current mh-nmh-flag
variable to control such things as the differences between MH and nmh to
allow for mailutils-mh too... but for now, you might as well use a
conditional of mh-mailutils-mh-flag being t if MH-E is using
mailutils-mh as the underlying package. We can clean things up more at a
later time.

In mh-utils.el, we should probaby put

(defvar mh-mailutils-mh-flag nil
  "Non-nil means mailutils-mh is installed on this system instead of MH.")
;;;###autoload
(put 'mh-mailutils-mh-flag 'risky-local-variable t)

It would also be well if you could tell us how we may determine that the
user has installed mailutils-mh from within the mh-find-progs function.

        Thanks,
        -- Mark