SHOW(1)                                                              [nmh-1.5]                                                             SHOW(1)

NAME

       show - show (display) messages

SYNOPSIS

       show [+folder] [msgs] [-draft] [-showproc program] [-showmimeproc program] [-header | -noheader] [-checkmime | -nocheckmime] [switches for
            showproc or showmimeproc] [-version] [-help]

DESCRIPTION

       Show lists each of the specified messages to the standard output (typically, the terminal).

       By default, text (non-MIME) messages are filtered and displayed by the nmh command mhl.  This command will display text messages in a nice,
       uniform  format.   It also allows you to configure the format of the displayed messages and which headers fields are shown.  See the mhl(1)
       manual page for the details about this command.  This default can be changed by defining the showproc profile component.  Any switches  not
       recognized by show are passed along to that program.  To override the default and the showproc profile component, use the -showproc program
       switch.  For example, -showproc more will cause the more program to list the messages with no  reformatting.   Normally,  this  program  is
       specified as the showproc in the user's .mh_profile, rather than using a command line switch.

       By  default,  non-text  messages  (MIME messages with multi-media contents) are processed and displayed by the nmh command mhshow.  See the
       mhshow(1) manual page for details about this command.  This default can changed  by  defining  the  showmimeproc  profile  component.   Any
       switches not recognized by show are passed along to that program.  To override this default and the showmimeproc profile component, use the
       -showmimeproc program switch.

       Note that in some cases, show may invoke the showmimeproc even for textual contents.  This will happen for text  messages  that  specify  a
       transfer encoding (such as MIME quoted-printable or base64) or specify a character set that show doesn't believe can be displayed natively.
       The environment variable $MM_CHARSET should be set to the terminal's native character set to avoid gratuitous invocations of the  showmime-
       proc.  See the mh-profile(5) man page for details about this environment variable.

       The  option -checkmime (set by default) instructs show to test if any of the messages to be displayed are non-text (MIME) messages.  If any
       are non-text, they are displayed by the program showmimeproc, else they are displayed by the program  showproc.   The  option  -nocheckmime
       disables this test and instructs show to use showproc, regardless of whether any of the messages are non-text (MIME) messages.

       The  -noshowproc  switch  will  disable any formatting or paging of messages.  It is equivalent to -nocheckmime -showproc cat.  It is still
       accepted, but should be considered (somewhat) obsolete.

       If the environment variable $NOMHNPROC is set, the test for non-text (MIME) messages will be disabled.  This method is obsolete.   Use  the
       -nocheckmime switch instead.

       The  -header  switch tells show to display a one-line description of the message being shown.  This description includes the folder and the
       message number.

       If no `msgs' are specified, the current message is used.  Although it depends on the specific showproc or showmimeproc, in the default set-
       up when more than one message is specified, you will be prompted for a <RETURN> prior to listing each message.  Each message will be listed
       a page at a time, and when the end of page is reached, the program will wait for a <SPACE> or <RETURN>.  If a <RETURN> is entered, it  will
       print the next line, whereas <SPACE> will print the next screenful.

       If the standard output is not a terminal, no queries are made, and each file is listed with a one-line header and two lines of separation.

       "show -draft" will list the file <mh-dir>/draft if it exists.

       If  the profile entry "Unseen-Sequence" is present and non-empty, then show will remove each of the messages shown from each sequence named
       by the profile entry.

FILES

       $HOME/.mh_profile          The user profile

PROFILE COMPONENTS

       Path:                To determine the user's nmh directory
       Current-Folder:      To find the default current folder
       Unseen-Sequence:     To name sequences denoting unseen messages
       showproc:            Program to show text (non-MIME) messages
       showmimeproc:        Program to show non-text (MIME) messages

SEE ALSO

       mhl(1), mhshow(1), more(1), next(1), prev(1), scan(1)

DEFAULTS

       `+folder' defaults to the current folder
       `msgs' defaults to cur
       `-checkmime'
       `-header'

CONTEXT

       If a folder is given, it will become the current folder.  The last message selected will become the current message.

BUGS

       The -header switch doesn't work when `msgs' expands to more than one message.  If the showproc is mhl, then this  problem  can  be  circum-
       vented by referencing the "messagename" field in the mhl format file.

       Show  updates the user's context before showing the message.  Hence show will mark messages as seen prior to the user actually seeing them.
       This is generally not a problem, unless the user relies on the "unseen" messages  mechanism,  and  interrupts  show  while  it  is  showing
       "unseen" messages.

       If  your showproc is mhl (the default), then show uses a built-in mhl: it does not actually run the mhl program.  Hence, if you define your
       own showproc , don't call it mhl since show won't run it.

       If your showproc is the pager more, then avoid running show in the background with only its standard output piped to another process, as in

            show | imprint &

       Due to a bug in more, show will go into a "tty input" state.  To avoid this problem, re-direct show's diagnostic output as well.  For users
       of csh:

            show |& imprint &

       For users of sh:

            show 2>&1 | imprint &

MH.6.8                                                             11 June 2012                                                            SHOW(1)