[4142] in testers
more nmh show greif
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Camilla R Fox)
Thu May 27 21:02:53 1999
Message-Id: <199905280102.VAA106284@smoke-screen.mit.edu>
To: testers@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 21:02:46 -0400
From: Camilla R Fox <cfox@MIT.EDU>
(machine: smoke-screen, IRIX 6.5, 8.3.3)
First off, I do have my showproc set to more.
I often do "show `badmail`" where badmail is an alias to pick with some
arguments, and returns a list of message numbers. Under nmh, and with
a particular set of messages, this behaves badly; essentially, one
message seems to eat the others, as the top message flips past too fast
to read. (It has nothing to do with pick - the same thing happens if I
just list the messages on the command line.) I narrowed it down to
three messages, out of a list of more than a dozen which also triggers
the bug.
The messages in question don't contain any control characters, and seem
normal, if long-winded and boring peices of email. If I cd into the
directory, and do "more 18 62 106" instead of "show 18 62 106" more
behaves correctly, and shows all three messages.
On a related note, more does pretty headers for the files you give it
if you give it multiple files under 8.2, while on this 8.3 machine, it
doesn't do the pretty headers (this might be an irix thing). Also,
when running show, with a message list, I now have to hit 'q' once for
every message left to be read, if I want to exit, while simply more
with a message list only needs 'q' once to exit.
This would be easier to debug if I knew what to set my showproc to so
that I can see what more is getting. I will experiment later. I must
be doing something bone-headed, since setting it to "less" didn't
change the output I was getting, and it should have.
