On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 02:43:15 +0200, Sven Guckes wrote: > not quite right - sorry. so lete me repeat:
OK, perhaps I haven't understood. > i want the manual to list all possibilities of default > values and their dependencies to configure options - I still don't understand. What do you mean by "all possibilities"? If this is what I think, there are an infinite number of possibilities, e.g. a path chosen at compile time could be any path... Moreover, I disagree about giving the dependency to configure options. As I've said, the user cannot necessarily know what configure options have been used to compile the installed Mutt binary (unless you know a way to do that), so this will be useless information that may confuse him (he may think that no special configure options have been used, though this is not necessarily true). Instead, we should give the dependencies to what "mutt -v" displays, as these data are accessible by the user. > however, i do *not* want the configure script > to install different versions of manuals. I agree. > > If the manual refers to compile-time options to know if > > the default value given by the manual is correct, the > > user must have a way to know what options have been used. > > exactly - so there should be a section in the manual which > tells the user about how to request info from the binary. See above. > > But later, I may adapt my signature to the > > Mutt mailing-lists with something like: > > send-hook ~Cmutt.*@mutt.org 'set signature="~/.sig-mutt" [still hadn't the time to do that, also I'll have to remove my X-Mailer-Info header in this case, as it will be useless] > my_hdr X-Signature: http://www.vinc17.org/signature Not necessarily a good idea. Some users only download the headers before choosing what messages to download, in particular when they have a temporary slow connection (for instance, this is what the mailer of the Psion 5mx does). So, it's better to have something in one's signature than in the headers. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> - 100% validated (X)HTML - Acorn Risc PC, Yellow Pig 17, Championnat International des Jeux Mathématiques et Logiques, TETRHEX, etc. Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / SPACES project at LORIA
