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From: jdpeek@RODAN.ACS.SYR.EDU (Jerry Peek)
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Subject: Re: mh profile switch troubles
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Date: 27 Aug 90 20:52:35 GMT
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> 	In the old days of MH, I had thought that the following two lines would
> work in concert to let me run an editor with switches:
> 
> Editor: /u/obrien/bin/e
> /u/obrien/bin/e: -notracks
> 
> 	This doesn't seem to work any more.  Any notions as to why?

The editor program itself, /u/obrien/bin/e, has to know that it should
look in the .mh_profile for switches.  Does your 'e' editor do that?
(MH programs do it by default.)

If your editor doesn't look in .mh_profile, you can make yourself a shell
script in your bin directory and use *that* as the editor.  Put the
switches in that shell script.  For instance, an editor named 'e_notracks'
might have these two lines in it:

	#! /bin/sh
	exec /u/obrien/bin/e -notracks "$@"

Using the "exec" saves a process.  Put this line in your .mh_profile:

	Editor: /u/obrien/bin/e_notracks

--Jerry Peek; Syracuse University Academic Computing Services; Syracuse, NY
  jdpeek@rodan.acs.syr.edu, JDPEEK@SUNRISE.BITNET        +1 315 443-3995