Re: mhshow questions
Ken Hornstein <[email protected]> Thu, 11 Sep 2025 11:53:11 -0400
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>1. Is there a command-line option to override the mhshow-show-blah/blah >entries in .mh_profile ? It seems like overkill to edit the file every >time I have a one-off need for a specific program. As others have pointed out, the MHSHOW environment variable can be used to specify a file with additional mhshow profile entries. This isn't SUPER convenient, but seems like a perfect choice for a shell alias. >2. Is there an option to process all of the parts at once, rather than >one at a time? Sometimes it's nice, when an email contains 2 images, >or an HTML file with embedded (not linked) images, to see them both together. It looks like there isn't a direct override. But ... I think you could make it work by wrapping the showproc in somethat that backgrounds the actual display program and exit()s in the parent. Like (untested): "cp %f /tmp/foo.$$.jpg; (xv /tmp/foo.$$.jpg; rm -f /tmp/foo.$$.jpg) &" Okay, that might not work right off the bat because I'm not sure what $$ will expand to in the subshell, but that's the general gist. Might be easier to do as a separate script. --Ken