Re: [9front] Nail: embrace, extend, extinguish

[Daniel Moch <daniel@danielmoch.com>]

Quoth ori@eigenstate.org:
> Nail was designed from the start as a replacemnt
> for Acme mail. I think it's ready.
> 
> The default view will chagne -- it's  compact and
> threaded, but those who want the old appearance can
> get it:
> 
> 	Nail -T -f'%F %{WWW DD MM hh:mm}\n%s'
> 
> Are there any objectons our outstanding bugs that
> need to be fixed before this goes in?

Two comments, one question.

First, the question: How are you going to handle the manual?  9front
already has a mail(1).  (I'm assuming Nail becomes Mail when it gets
merged.)

Now the comments:

- The manual doesn't document the format specification you mention
  above for the default view.  In fact, the above example *seems* to
  link the format string to the -f flag, but the manual says -f is
  used to specify the maildir (which I believe matches Mail).  I
  basically can't make sense of what's going on there.

- The font set I use (which are all provided in the base system)
  doesn't support the glyph you're using to indicate new messages.  I
  wouldn't consider this a blocker, but I think that needs to get
  resolved at some point, either by patching the glyph into all
  system-provided fonts, or by using one already there.  In my opinion
  the system will feel pretty janky if the base font set doesn't
  support the base utilities.

That's all I have at the moment.  I'm looking forward to seeing Nail
get merged.  The threading alone is a great value-add, and the code
seems a lot cleaner too.  Thanks for taking this on!

-- 
Daniel Moch
https://djmo.ch