Added getmymbox function escape.

[nmh] / man / mh-profile.man

diff --git a/man/mh-profile.man b/man/mh-profile.man
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--- a/man/mh-profile.man
+++ b/man/mh-profile.man
@@ -1,11 +1,9 @@
-.TH MH-PROFILE %manext5% "April 14, 2013" "%nmhversion%"
+.TH MH-PROFILE %manext5% "April 18, 2014" "%nmhversion%"
 .\"
 .\" %nmhwarning%
 .\"
 .SH NAME
 mh-profile \- user profile customization for nmh message handler
-.SH SYNOPSIS
-.I $HOME/.mh\(ruprofile
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 Each user of
 .B nmh
@@ -158,16 +156,6 @@ EDITOR environment variables.
 (profile, default: vi)
 .RE
 .PP
-.BR automimeproc :
-.RS 5
-If defined and set to 1, then the
-.B whatnow
-program will automatically
-invoke the buildmimeproc (discussed below) to process each message as a MIME
-composition draft before it is sent.
-(profile, no default)
-.RE
-.PP
 .BR Msg\-Protect :
 600
 .RS 5
@@ -262,7 +250,7 @@ by the default component files by tools like
 and
 .B repl
 to construct your default \*(lqFrom\*(rq header.  The text used here will
-be copied exactly to your From: header, so it should already be RFC-822
+be copied exactly to your From: header, so it should already be RFC 822
 compliant.  If this is set, the
 .B Signature
 profile entry is NOT used, so it should include a signature as well.  (profile,
@@ -471,7 +459,7 @@ can be used to select alternate programs if the
 user wishes.  The default values are given in the examples.
 .PP
 If the profile element contains spaces, the element is split at spaces
-into tokens and each token is given as a seperate argument to the
+into tokens and each token is given as a separate argument to the
 .IR execvp (2)
 system call.  If the element contains shell metacharacters then the entire
 element is executed using
@@ -549,10 +537,6 @@ supersedes the default built-in pager command.)
 .RS 5
 This is the program used to automatically mail various messages
 and notifications.  It is used by
-.B conflict
-when using the
-.B \-mail
-option.  It is used by
 .B send
 to post failure notices.
 It is used to retrieve an external-body with access-type `mail-server'
@@ -561,7 +545,7 @@ It is used to retrieve an external-body with access-type `mail-server'
 .RE
 .PP
 .BR mhlproc :
-%libdir%/mhl
+%nmhlibexecdir%/mhl
 .RS 5
 This is the program used to filter messages in various ways.  It
 is used by
@@ -606,12 +590,6 @@ to display message bodies (or message parts) of type text/plain.
 supersedes the default built-in pager command.)
 .RE
 .PP
-.BR mshproc :
-%bindir%/msh
-.RS 5
-Currently not used.
-.RE
-.PP
 .BR packproc :
 %bindir%/packf
 .RS 5
@@ -619,7 +597,7 @@ Currently not used.
 .RE
 .PP
 .BR postproc :
-%libdir%/post
+%nmhlibexecdir%/post
 .RS 5
 This is the program used by
 .BR send ,
@@ -667,7 +645,7 @@ to process and display non-text (MIME) messages.
 .RE
 .PP
 .BR showproc :
-%libdir%/mhl
+%nmhlibexecdir%/mhl
 .RS 5
 This is the program used by
 .B show
@@ -693,6 +671,18 @@ This is the program used by
 .B whatnow
 to determine to whom a message would be sent.
 .RE
+.SS "Profile Lookup"
+After consulting .mh_profile,
+some programs read an optional profile specified by a
+program-specific environment variable,
+and then the system-wide profile %nmhetcdir%/mhn.defaults.
+These programs are mhbuild, mhshow, mhstore, and mhn.
+mhfixmsg is similar, but has no optional profile.
+
+The first occurrence of a component is used,
+e.g.\& .mh_profile's trumps $MHSHOW's.
+A component with no value still stops further occurrences being used,
+but is considered absent.
 .SS "Environment Variables"
 The operation of
 .B nmh
@@ -765,7 +755,7 @@ additional user profile (file) to be read by
 .BR mhn ,
 in addition to the mhn.defaults profile.
 .B mhn
-is deprecated, so this support for this variable will
+is deprecated, so support for this variable will
 be removed from a future nmh release.
 .RE
 .PP
@@ -785,48 +775,6 @@ additional user profile (file) to be read by
 in addition to the mhn.defaults profile.
 .RE
 .PP
-.B $MM_CHARSET
-.RS 5
-With this environment variable, you can specify
-the native character set you are using.  You must be able to display
-this character set on your terminal.
-.PP
-This variable is checked to see if a RFC-2047 header field should be
-decoded (in
-.BR inc ,
-.BR scan ,
-.BR mhl ).
-This variable is
-checked by
-.B show
-to see if the
-.I showproc
-or
-.I showmimeproc
-should
-be called, since showmimeproc will be called if a text message uses
-a character set that doesn't match
-.BR $MM_CHARSET .
-This variable is
-checked by
-.B mhshow
-for matches against the charset parameter
-of text contents to decide it the text content can be displayed
-without modifications to your terminal.  This variable is checked by
-.B mhbuild
-to decide what character set to specify in the charset
-parameter of text contents containing 8\-bit characters.
-.PP
-When decoding text in such an alternate character set,
-.B nmh
-must be able to determine which characters are alphabetic, which
-are control characters, etc.  For many operating systems, this
-will require enabling the support for locales (such as setting
-the environment variable
-.B $LC_CTYPE
-to iso_8859_1).
-.RE
-.PP
 .B $MAILDROP
 .RS 5
 This variable tells
@@ -913,7 +861,6 @@ default.  See mh-tailor(5).
 .PP
 .B $MHTMPDIR
 .B $TMPDIR
-.B $TMP
 .RS 5
 These variables are searched, in order, for the directory in which to
 create some temporary files.
@@ -931,6 +878,13 @@ will emit debugging information.
 If this variable is set to a non-null value,
 .B pick
 will emit a representation of the search pattern.
+.B $MHPDEBUG
+is deprecated, so support for this variable will
+be removed from a future nmh release.  Instead,
+.B pick
+now supports a
+.B \-debug
+switch.
 .RE
 .PP
 .B $MHWDEBUG
@@ -1081,7 +1035,7 @@ if annotations are to occur.
 .SH FILES
 .fc ^ ~
 .nf
-.ta \w'%etcdir%/ExtraBigFileName  'u
+.ta \w'%nmhetcdir%/ExtraBigFileName  'u
 ^$HOME/\&.mh\(ruprofile~^The user profile
 ^or $MH~^Rather than the standard profile
 ^<mh\-dir>/context~^The user context