pi[pe] [[msglist] command] misleading

積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <[email protected]> Mon, 14 Jan 2019 22:25:36 +0800

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnu.mailutils.bugs
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$ mail
& help
pi[pe] [[msglist] command]
| [[msglist] command]
& | wc
No value set for "cmd"
& | . wc
    668    3413   42967

So it turns out msglist is not optional at all!

So the above nested brackets are misleading.

(info "(mailutils) Displaying Messages")

'pipe [MSGLIST] [SHELL-COMMAND]'
'| [MSGLIST] [SHELL-COMMAND]'
     Pipe the contents of specified messages through SHELL-COMMAND.  If
     SHELL-COMMAND is empty but the string variable 'cmd' is set, the
     value of this variable is used as a command name.

Maybe that should be
'| MSGLIST [SHELL-COMMAND]'