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Neil Davies wrote:
> Does anyone out there know how to suppress the blank line that follows any
> field used with the formatfield option, eg
>
>     Date:formatfield="%<(nodate{text})%{text}%|%(pretty{text})%>"
>     To:

gregg.g.wonderly wrote:
> The problem is more with dates than anything else.  Think of what ctime(3)
> returns and you will understand why.  The solution is a code modification to
> eliminate the newline from the buffer.

Actually, ctime(3) isn't used, a mh routine called dctime() is the one
that's adding the newline.

John Schmitz provided a working patch to mhlsbr.c. Still, I prefer
minimalistic changes so my patch is appended.

It's good to see so much interest in mh these days!

		Craig
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RCS file: RCS/mhlsbr.c,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -c -r1.3 mhlsbr.c
*** /tmp/,RCSt1a10531	Mon Jun 12 17:11:12 1989
--- mhlsbr.c	Mon Jun 12 17:11:04 1989
***************
*** 952,958 ****
  	    cptr -> c_text = ap;

  	(void) fmtscan (c1 -> c_fmt, buffer, sizeof buffer - 1, dat);
! 	c2 -> c_text = concat (buffer, "\n", NULLCP);

  	free (ap);
  	return;
--- 952,959 ----
  	    cptr -> c_text = ap;

  	(void) fmtscan (c1 -> c_fmt, buffer, sizeof buffer - 1, dat);
! 	/* Don't need to append a newline, dctime() already did */
! 	c2 -> c_text = getcpy (buffer);

  	free (ap);
  	return;