X-Git-Url: https://diplodocus.org/git/nmh/blobdiff_plain/28c3595a77a8c942bee1057085776dad0b3d53f4..9cc2510:/man/mh-profile.man

diff --git a/man/mh-profile.man b/man/mh-profile.man
index f991860f..81e2ccbe 100644
--- a/man/mh-profile.man
+++ b/man/mh-profile.man
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH MH-PROFILE %manext5% "February 16, 2014" "%nmhversion%"
+.TH MH-PROFILE %manext5% "April 18, 2014" "%nmhversion%"
 .\"
 .\" %nmhwarning%
 .\"
@@ -537,10 +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'
@@ -549,7 +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
@@ -594,12 +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
@@ -607,7 +597,7 @@ Currently not used.
 .RE
 .PP
 .BR postproc :
-%libdir%/post
+%nmhlibexecdir%/post
 .RS 5
 This is the program used by
 .BR send ,
@@ -655,7 +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
@@ -681,6 +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
@@ -753,7 +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
@@ -876,6 +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 $MHWDEBUG
@@ -1026,7 +1035,7 @@ if annotations are to occur.
 .SH FILES
 .fc ^ ~
 .nf
-.ta \w'%etcdir%/ExtraBigFileName  'u
+.ta \w'%nmhetcdir%/ExtraBigFileName  'u
 ^$HOME/\&.mh\(ruprofile~^The user profile
 ^or $MH~^Rather than the standard profile
 ^<mh\-dir>/context~^The user context