From: Paul Fox <pgf@foxharp.boston.ma.us>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 03:21:35 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: mh-profile.man: rewrite the Profile Lookup section for clarity
X-Git-Url: https://diplodocus.org/git/nmh/commitdiff_plain/63d40db6ba51661cacb00957578c21d39f2e6bda?hp=65b6af893904c32d92951fe8142f55e8bd74adff

mh-profile.man: rewrite the Profile Lookup section for clarity

thanks to Ralph Corderoy for the text.
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diff --git a/man/mh-profile.man b/man/mh-profile.man
index f34ac4ba..3ebae8ba 100644
--- a/man/mh-profile.man
+++ b/man/mh-profile.man
@@ -672,26 +672,17 @@ This is the program used by
 to determine to whom a message would be sent.
 .RE
 .SS "Profile Lookup"
-Some
-.B nmh
-programs will look in more than just the user's 
-.I \&.mh\(ruprofile
-for profile entries.  In particular, 
-.BR mhbuild ,
-.BR mhshow ,
-.BR mhstore ,
-and
-.BR mhn 
-will also all look in a file specified by a program-specific
-environment variable (see below), and after that in 
-the system-installed profile (%etcdir%/mhn.defaults).  (The
-.B mhfixmsg
-program is similar, but doesn't consult an environment variable.)
-The first match found for a particular component will be used,
-allowing user-supplied entries to override those that are system-supplied.
-A profile component with a blank value field will "hide" any later
-occurrences of the component, and will make the entry appear to be
-absent.
+After consulting .mh_profile,
+some programs read an optional profile specified by a
+program-specific environment variable,
+and then the system-wide profile %etcdir%/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