X-Git-Url: http://git.marmaro.de/?p=mmh;a=blobdiff_plain;f=man%2Fmhl.man1;h=de444489e9e96d95c0fc71b00de0c7398e4f9114;hp=ddde339236493ec5353bced85d94b97febf26bc4;hb=e11983f44e59d8de236affa5b0d0d3067c192e24;hpb=5aaedc4256d58afe2481d667afdcb5162a914ba9 diff --git a/man/mhl.man1 b/man/mhl.man1 index ddde339..de44448 100644 --- a/man/mhl.man1 +++ b/man/mhl.man1 @@ -7,8 +7,7 @@ mhl \- produce formatted listings of nmh messages .SH SYNOPSIS .HP 5 .na -.B %libdir%/mhl -.RB [ \-bell " | " \-nobell ] +.B mhl .RB [ \-clear " | " \-noclear ] .RB [ \-folder .IR +folder ] @@ -20,7 +19,6 @@ mhl \- produce formatted listings of nmh messages .IR columns ] .RB [ \-moreproc .IR program ] -.RB [ \-nomoreproc ] .RI [ files .IR \&... ] .RB [ \-version ] @@ -48,17 +46,12 @@ prompting for the next message (if there is one), and a (usually CTRL-\\) will terminate the program (without core dump). .PP The -.B \-bell -option tells -.B mhl -to ring the terminal's bell at the -end of each page, while the .B \-clear option tells .B mhl to clear the screen at the end of each page (or output a formfeed after each message). -Both of these switches (and their inverse counterparts) take effect only +This switches (and its inverse counterpart) take effect only if the profile entry .I moreproc is defined but empty, and @@ -132,6 +125,12 @@ can be changed by using the .B \-form .I formatfile switch. +Note: In contrast to any other +.B mmh +tool, the +.B \-form +switch does only take file names, but no format strings with a prepended +equal sign `='. .PP Finally, the .B \-folder @@ -202,7 +201,7 @@ follow a component, they apply only to that component, otherwise, their affect is global. Since the whole format is parsed before any output processing, the last global switch setting for a variable applies to the whole message if that variable is used in a global context (i.e., -bell, clearscreen, width, length). +clearscreen, width, length). .PP .RS 5 .nf @@ -221,8 +220,6 @@ uppercase flag output text of this component in all nouppercase flag don't uppercase clearscreen flag/G clear the screen prior to each page noclearscreen flag/G don't clearscreen -bell flag/G ring the bell at the end of each page -nobell flag/G don't bell component string/L name to use instead of \*(lqcomponent\*(rq for this component nocomponent flag don't output \*(lqcomponent: \*(rq for this @@ -336,7 +333,6 @@ show(1), ap(8), dp(8) .SH DEFAULTS .nf -.RB ` \-bell ' .RB ` \-noclear ' .RB ` \-length 40 ' .RB ` \-width 80 ' @@ -346,7 +342,14 @@ show(1), ap(8), dp(8) None .SH BUGS -There should be some way to pass `bell' and `clear' information to the +In contrast to any other +.B mmh +tool, the +.B \-form +switch does only take file names, but no format strings with a prepended +equal sign `='. +.PP +There should be some way to pass `clear' information to the front\-end. .PP The \*(lqnonewline\*(rq option interacts badly with \*(lqcompress\*(rq