What Happened to mha-mhedit?

[Martin McCormick]

        I have been using mh and then later, nmh for probably 14
or 15 years. A year or two ago, I installed mhonarc so that
quoted mime messages showed only the text like they should and
not mime directives and, even worse, not unprocessed base64
data.

        I recently set up another FreeBSD system with nmh and
mhonarc to operate in text mode and everything was fine until I
started to reply to a mime message, one day and got the error
that /usr/local/bin/mha-edit did not exist.

        It's not in the extras directory of the FreeBSD port of
the latest mhonarc. My old .mh_profile where it applies to
mhonarc is:

Path: Mail
repl: -editor mha-mhedit
dist: -editor  vi
comp: -editor  vi
showproc: mhl
mhshow: -nopause

        What it did with mha-mhedit was give you a vi session
with the mime-stripped version of the text so you could include
it in your reply.

        What do I need to do to get the same functionality back?
I am a bit fuzzy on this.

        Thanks for any help.

Martin McCormick WB5AGZ  Stillwater, OK
Systems Engineer
OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group

[Earl Hood]

On October 5, 2007 at 08:16, Martin McCormick wrote:

> I have been using mh and then later, nmh for probably 14
> or 15 years. A year or two ago, I installed mhonarc so that
> quoted mime messages showed only the text like they should and
> not mime directives and, even worse, not unprocessed base64
> data.
>
> I recently set up another FreeBSD system with nmh and
> mhonarc to operate in text mode and everything was fine until I
> started to reply to a mime message, one day and got the error
> that /usr/local/bin/mha-edit did not exist.

I have no control over the FreeBSD repackaging of mhonarc.

You can download mhonarc directly from www.mhonarc.org.  The
mha-mhedit program is contained in the extras/ directory.

BTW, here is the .mh_profile settings I use for mha-mhedit:

mha-mhedit: -editor vim -htmlconv w3m
mha-mhedit-lynx: -stdin -dump -force_html -nolist -width=76
mha-mhedit-w3m: -dump -cols 76 -T text/html
mha-mhedit-next: vim

I actually do not have mha-mhedit invoked all the time since
I do not need its facilities all the time.  I have a shell
alias called 'mrepl' that is defined as follows:

  repl -editor mha-mhedit

I use it if I ever need to reply to an HTML or multipart
message.

I guess if the performance of mha-mhedit is not a problem for
you, then having it invoked by default for repl should not
be a problem.

You can run perldoc directly on mha-mhedit to view its manpage.

--ewh

[Martin McCormick]

Earl Hood writes:
>I have no control over the FreeBSD repackaging of mhonarc.
>
>You can download mhonarc directly from www.mhonarc.org.  The
>mha-mhedit program is contained in the extras/ directory.

Thank you. That is a tremendous help. Both mhonarc and nmh work
extremely well. I think this may be about the second time in
years that I couldn't figure out what to do to fix a problem.
There just aren't that many problems in the first place.

>BTW, here is the .mh_profile settings I use for mha-mhedit:
>
>mha-mhedit: -editor vim -htmlconv w3m
>mha-mhedit-lynx: -stdin -dump -force_html -nolist -width=76
>mha-mhedit-w3m: -dump -cols 76 -T text/html
>mha-mhedit-next: vim
>
>I actually do not have mha-mhedit invoked all the time since
>I do not need its facilities all the time.  I have a shell
>alias called 'mrepl' that is defined as follows:
>
>  repl -editor mha-mhedit
>
>I use it if I ever need to reply to an HTML or multipart
>message.

        Again, many thanks.

Martin McCormick