Discuss development of the nail mail client. ()

matts | 16 Mar 2005 18:56

Maybe some changes for the nail man page regarding the forward command

This email is referring to the nail.1 man page included in the 11.21
(2/19/05) source.

I find the forward command extremely useful and certainly, as Gunnar has
said in previous posts to this list, more appropriate in some cases than
the resend command.

After reading the man page and refining my setup, I got results that were
different than I expected.  Often that is a personal problem with me, but
I submit some changes for consideration.  What I was trying to do was to
forward an email with all its attachments (so forward-as-attachment was
set), but I was trying to limit which headers were included from the
original message.

Below I list the four pieces from the man page with possible
modifications, but like I said, I might be the only one to who this wasn't
already obvious.

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The current man page states:

   forward-as-attachment
          Original messages are normally sent as inline text with
          the  forward command, and only the first part of a mul-
          tipart message is included.  With this option, messages
          are sent as MIME message/rfc822 attachments, and all of
          their parts are included.

Maybe modify with something like:

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Gunnar Ritter | 17 Mar 2005 16:14

Re: Maybe some changes for the nail man page regarding the forward command

matts@... wrote:

> Below I list the four pieces from the man page with possible
> modifications, but like I said, I might be the only one to who this wasn't
> already obvious. [...]
> Any opinions?

I am always open for documentation enhancements. When I am writing the
reference documentation for something I have just implemented, I have
of course a different understanding of it than somebody who is reading
the manual page later, so it is well possible that my descriptions are
not comprehensive enough.

I would only request to send such proposals as unified diffs against
the original text in the future since it is easier to see the actual
changes with this format.

Your proposals are now in the manual page. Thank you.

	Gunnar

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matts | 17 Mar 2005 18:32

Re: Maybe some changes for the nail man page regarding the forward command

 > From Gunnar.Ritter@...  Thu Mar 17 10:15:12 2005
 > From: Gunnar Ritter <Gunnar.Ritter@...>
 > To: nail-devel@..., matts@...
 > Subject: Re: [nail-devel] Maybe some changes for the nail man page regarding
 >  the forward command
 >
 > matts@... wrote:
 >
 > > Below I list the four pieces from the man page with possible
 > > modifications, but like I said, I might be the only one to who this wasn't
 > > already obvious. [...]
 > > Any opinions?
 >
 > I am always open for documentation enhancements. When I am writing the
 > reference documentation for something I have just implemented, I have
 > of course a different understanding of it than somebody who is reading
 > the manual page later, so it is well possible that my descriptions are
 > not comprehensive enough.
 >
 > I would only request to send such proposals as unified diffs against
 > the original text in the future since it is easier to see the actual
 > changes with this format.

Yes, of course.  That is easy enough.  Sorry about that.

Matt S

 >
 > Your proposals are now in the manual page. Thank you.
 >

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