Re: [Nmh-workers] The attach feature

[David Levine]

Norm wrote:

> Of historical interest:
>
> Whatnow now has features not available to shell users. This represents,
> the perhaps inevitable, denouement of an argument I lost decades ago. I
> believed then, and believe now, that the whatnow feature was a mistake;
> that the correct interface between mh and the user is the shell.
>
> It's  surprising that it took thirty five years.

:-)

If a user doesn't want to use whatnow but wants to use
the attach feature, they could manage the magic headers
manually or via simple scripts (or now, mhmail).

I find whatnow esp. helpful when juggling multiple drafts.
That happens a lot in this era of multitasking.

David