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NAME

fmttest - test programs in nmh’s mh-format(5) language

SYNOPSIS

fmttest

[-help] [-version] [-form formatfile] [-format formatstring]

[-address | -raw | -date | -message] [-file | -nofile] [--component component-text] [-dupaddrs | -nodupaddrs] [-ccme | -noccme] [-outsize size-in-characters] [-width column-width] [-msgnum number] [-msgcur flag] [-msgsize size] [-unseen flag] [-dump | -nodump] [-trace | -notrace] [+folder] [msgs | strings]

DESCRIPTION

fmttest is used to test programs written for the nmh format language as specified by mh-format(5). It is also intended to replace the ap, dp, and fmtdump programs.

Format Program Selection
The -format string and -form formatfile specify a format string or file to read. A format string, if given, must be a single argument to the -format switch. If a format file name is passed to the -form, switch, the file is searched for using the normal nmh rules: absolute pathnames are accessed directly, tilde expansion is done on usernames, and files are searched for in the user’s Mail directory as specified in their profile. If not found there, the directory “/etc/nmh” is checked.

Mode Selection and Component Specification
fmttest
has four operating modes - address, raw, date, and message - which are selected by the -address, -raw, -date, and -message switches, respectively.

Address mode treats every argument as an email address to be processed by nmh’s email parser using the specified format program. The parsed address is made available as a special %{text} component escape, and the output from the program is printed on standard output. If there was an error parsing the email address the error message is stored in the %{error} component escape. If no format program is given on the command line, the following default program is used:

%<{error}%{error}: %{text}%|%(putstr(proper{text}))%>

Address mode is equivalent to ap(8).

In raw mode, no processing of the specified arguments is done. Each argument is run against the specified format program with the argument text available in the %{text} component. You must specify a format with -form or -format when using raw mode.

Date mode is identical to raw mode, with one exception: if no format is specified, the following format string is used:

%<(nodate{text})error: %{text}%|%(putstr(pretty{text}))%>

Date mode is equivalent to dp(8).

In message mode the arguments to fmttest are interpreted as an optional folder and messages. fmttest will read each specified message and make all of the components in the message available to the format program. Also, the appropriate information for the %(msg), %(cur), %(unseen), and %(size) function escapes will be made available for each message. If the -file switch is given, the arguments are interpreted as filenames instead of message numbers, but otherwise the behavior is the same (except that the %(msg), %(cur), and %(unseen) function escapes will not provide any useful information).

The default format used in address mode is the default format used by scan. The following command can replicate the functionality of the repl command.

fmttest -nodupaddrs -form replcomps -outsize max [+folder] message

Regardless of the mode, other components can be provided to the format program by the use of the --component switch. For example, the following program will test the use of the “encrypted” component:

fmttest --encrypted yes -message cur

In message mode, components supplied on the command line will override components from messages.

Additional Switches
The -dupaddrs and -nodupaddrs switches control whether duplicate addresses are allowed or suppressed by the FORMATADDR instruction, which is used by the ’%(formataddr)’ function escape. In normal operation duplicate addresses are only suppressed by repl.

The -ccme and -noccme switches control whether or not to count the user’s local mailbox as a duplicate address. This replicates the behavior of the -cc me switch to repl, and only applies if -nodupaddrs is in effect.

The -outsize switch controls the maximum number of printable characters that the format engine will produce. Characters marked as non-printing by the format engine with ’%(zputlit)’, characters with zero width, and extra bytes that are part of a multibyte character are not counted against this total. Two special values are supported: “max”, which means as many characters as the format engine can produce (limited by internal buffers), and “width”, which will set the value to the width of the terminal. In message mode it defaults to “width”, otherwise the default is “max”.

The -width switch controls the column width which is used by the ’%(width)’ function escape. It defaults to the terminal width.

The -msgnum, -msgcur, -msgsize, and the -unseen switches all control the values used, respectively, by the following function escapes: ’%(num)’, ’%(cur)’, ’%(size)’, and ’%(unseen)’. If none are supplied, these values are taken from the message in message mode; in all other modes the default values are 0.

Compiling and Tracing Format Programs
The -dump switch outputs the complete set of format instructions for the specified format program. The -trace switch will output each format instruction as it is being executed, and show the values of the num and str registers if they have changed from the previous instruction. The output buffer is also printed if it has changed from the previous instruction.

Format Instructions
It should be noted that there is not a one-to-one correspondence between format escapes and format instructions; many instructions have side effects. Instructions prefixed with “LV” generally return a integer into the num (value) register; instructions prefixed with a “LS” return a string into the str register.

Instruction

Description

COMP

Output component

COMPF

Formatted output component

LIT

Output literal text

CHAR

Output single character

NUM

Output the num register

NUMF

Formatted output of the num register

STR

Output the str register

STRF

Formatted output of the str register

STRFW

Not used

PUTADDR

Output address list in str register

STRLIT

Output str, no space compression

STRLITZ

Like STRLIT, but not counted against width

LS_COMP

Write component to str register

LS_LIT

Write literal to str register

LS_GETENV

Write environment var to str register

LS_DECODECOMP

Decode RFC 2047 encoded component to str register

LS_DECODE

Decode RFC 2047 encoded string to str register

LS_TRIM

Trim trailing whitespace from str register

LV_COMP

Convert component to integer, store in num register

LV_COMPFLAG

Set num to 1 if TRUE set in component

LV_LIT

Load literal value into num register

LV_DAT

Load value from dat array into num register (see note)

LV_STRLEN

Set num to the length of str

LV_PLUS_L

Add value to num register

LV_MINUS_L

Subtract value from num register

LV_DIVIDE_L

Divide num register by value

LV_MODULO_L

num modulo value

LV_CHAR_LEFT

Store remaining number of printable chars in num

LS_MONTH

Write short name of month to str from date component

LS_LMONTH

Write long name of month to str from date component

LS_ZONE

Write time zone offset to str from date component

LS_DAY

Write short name of day of week to str from date component

LS_WEEKDAY

Write long name of day of week to str from date component

LS_822DATE

Write RFC 822 compatible date to str from date component

LS_PRETTY

Write date with “pretty” timezone to str

LV_SEC

Write date component seconds to num

LV_MIN

Write date component minutes to num

LV_HOUR

Write date component hour to num

LV_MON

Write date component numeric month to num (start at 1)

LV_YEAR

Write date component year to num

LV_YDAY

Write date component Julian day to num

LV_WDAY

Write date component day of week to num (0 == Sunday)

LV_ZONE

Write date component time zone offset to num

LV_CLOCK

Write date component in Unix epoch time to num

LV_RCLOCK

Write offset of date component from current time to num

LV_DAYF

Write 1 to num if day of week is explicit

LV_DST

Write 1 to num if DST is in effect for date component

LV_ZONEF

Write 1 to num if timezone is explicit

LS_ADDR

Write email address of addr component to str

LS_PERS

Write personal name of addr component to str

LS_MBOX

Write mailbox (username) of addr component to str

LS_HOST

Write host of addr component to str

LS_PATH

Write host route of addr component to str

LS_GNAME

Write group name of addr component to str

LS_NOTE

Write note portion of addr component to str

LS_822ADDR

Write “proper” RFC 822 version of addr component to str

LS_FRIENDLY

Write friendly (name or note) of address component to str

LS_UNQUOTE

Remove RFC 2822 quotes from string

LV_HOSTTYPE

Set num to type of host (0=local, 1=network)

LV_INGRPF

Set num to 1 if address was inside of group

LV_NOHOSTF

Set num to 1 of no host was present in address component

LOCALDATE

Convert date component to local timezone

GMTDATE

Convert date component to GMT

PARSEDATE

Parse date component

PARSEADDR

Parse address component

FORMATADDR

Add address component to list in str

CONCATADDR

Like FORMATADDR, but will not suppress duplicates

MYMBOX

Set num if address component is a local address

SAVESTR

Save str register temporarily

DONE

End program

NOP

No operation

GOTO

Jump to new instruction

IF_S_NULL

Branch if str is NULL

IF_S

Branch if str is not NULL

IF_V_EQ

Branch if num is equal to value

IF_V_NE

Branch if num is not equal to value

IF_V_GT

Branch if num is greater than value

IF_MATCH

Branch if str contains string

IF_AMATCH

Branch if str starts with string

S_NULL

Set num to 1 if str is NULL

S_NONNULL

Set num to 1 if str is not NULL

V_EQ

Set num to 1 if num equals value

V_NE

Set num to 1 if num does not equal value

V_GT

Set num to 1 if num is greater than value

V_MATCH

Set num to 1 if str contains string

V_AMATCH

Set num to 1 if str starts with string

The LV_DAT instruction is a bit special. Callers of the format library pass in an array of integers that are used by certain format escapes. The current list of format escapes and the indexes they use are:

dat[0]

%(num)

dat[1]

%(cur)

dat[2]

%(size)

dat[3]

%(width)

dat[4]

%(unseen)

SEE ALSO

mh-format(5), repl(1), ap(8), dp(8), fmtdump(8)

DEFAULTS

-message
-nofile
-dupaddrs

CONTEXT

If a folder is given, it will become the current folder.

BUGS

It shouldn’t require as much code from other programs as it does.