From Friedrich.Leisch@ci.tuwien.ac.at  Thu Jan 27 15:01:23 2000
From: Friedrich.Leisch@ci.tuwien.ac.at (Friedrich Leisch)
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 16:01:23 +0100 (CET)
Subject: oops
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10001270943030.10015-100000@bolker.zoo.ufl.edu>
References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10001270943030.10015-100000@bolker.zoo.ufl.edu>
Message-ID: <14480.24003.408377.962589@galadriel.ci.tuwien.ac.at>

>>>>> On Thu, 27 Jan 2000 09:48:11 -0500 (EST),
>>>>> Ben Bolker (BB) wrote:

BB>   I just sent a bug report about "mailx" being the default mailer, before
BB> I looked at bug.report() carefully and saw that it checked
BB> "/usr/ucb/mail", and "Mail" as well as "mailx".  I guess I had had the
BB> problem with this in a previous version.

BB>   Would it be clearer to have .Options$mailer be a vector or list of
BB> alternate mailers that were checked in turn, rather than having them
BB> hard-wired into bug.report()?

BB>  (e.g., .Options$mailer <- c("mailx","Mail","/usr/ucb/mail")

OK, my previous email was too fast :-)

hmm, the mailer option is more intended to be a ``concept of mailing''
rather than a program by itself (we just named all options as the
programs as this is the easiest things to remember) ... but gnudoit
doeas something conceptually different because it opens an emacs mail
buffer and not simply a temp file ... 

I don't like the idea of having the above too flexible because there
will definetely be people doing something like

	bug.report(mailer="netscape")

and complain that it is not working ...


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oops
Friedrich Leisch