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From: Gaute Hope <eg@gaute.vetsj.com>
To: Ruthard Baudach <ruthard.baudach@web.de>
Cc: supmua <supmua@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [sup] [PATCH] added command line argument to sup invocation: "sup email-address" invokes sup in command line
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 11:17:17 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1416136614-astroid-1-p7569roxe1-1329@strange> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1416000203-sup-9655@ruthard-lappi>

Excerpts from Ruthard Baudach's message of November 14, 2014 22:48:
>>== Auszüge aus der Nachricht von  Gaute Hope vom 2014-11-14 11:13:
>> got a few comments below [btw: it is better to send a completely new
>> patch with your changes squashed together than to send incremental
>> changes to the first patch].
> 
> I still have to master this "stupid content tracker". Hope to figure it
> out.
> 
>> >  Sup is a curses-based email client.
>> >  
>> >  Usage:
>> > -  sup [options]
>> > +  sup [options] [to-address]
>> > +
>> > +Arguments:
>> > +             to-address:  Compose message to this recipient upon startup
>> > +                          --compose overrides an address passed as argument
>> 
>> ^^ i think it would be better to fail if --compose is specified in addition to
>> an unnamed argument, what happens if i want to specify many addresses?
>> what do you think?
> 
> I had trouble to figure out how --compose works. As far as I found out
> by now it accepts exact ONE argument, which might be a string containing
> a list of well formatted email addresses. No checks are done,
> 
>   sup --compose "This is all a terrible nonsense"
> 
> will happily compose an email with a "To: This is all a terrible
> nonsense" header.
> 
> Thus I think I could just add the arguments to compose and ARGV.join(' '),
> check this combined address list with RMail::Address.parse, inform the
> user if the mails are not well formed, and pass the list happily to the
> existing code
> 
> This way the option --compose and any command arguments would work
> seamlessly together.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
>> >  
>> > +## Trollop does no command argument parsing, only option parsing.
>> > +# After Trollop parsing, ARGV contains only the +rest+ of the command line,
>> > +# thus the arguments to our program
>> > +## compose message if we have an email address as first command line argument
>> 
>> add '.'
> sorry, yes
>>        , why different levels of '#' ? 
> a habit I took from lisp and bash, somehow feels like structuring
> comments and code
>>                                        try to stay at approx 80
>> char width.
> I do like Python, my vim is set to tw=80 for all of my work.
> Well, usually.


All sounds good.

- gaute



  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-16 11:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-08 18:37 Ruthard Baudach
2014-11-14 10:13 ` [sup] " Gaute Hope
2014-11-14 21:48   ` Ruthard Baudach
2014-11-16 11:17     ` Gaute Hope [this message]
2014-11-15  9:57   ` Ruthard Baudach
2014-11-16 11:25     ` Gaute Hope

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