trim comment at start of script

[code/mailplate.git] / mailplate

diff --git a/mailplate b/mailplate
index c7a02b98a603ca17dcb18d45e22de834239467a4..490ba8efe34cbe3f1e295b3d0d7242730348d87e 100755 (executable)
--- a/mailplate
+++ b/mailplate
@@ -3,41 +3,8 @@
 #
 # mailplate — reformat mail drafts according to templates
 #
 #
 # mailplate — reformat mail drafts according to templates
 #

-# This script reformats mail drafts according to a given template. The
-# template may be specified on the command line, but mailplate can also use
-# control information from the template files to automatically select an
-# appropriate template (--auto). A selection menu feature is planned (--menu).
-#
-# Applying a template means obtainined select data from an existing mail
-# message (unless --new is specified) and to fill it into appropriate slots in
-# the template. Messages are processed in three parts: headers, body, and
-# signature.
-#
-# The template can define two types of headers: mandatory and preservatory.
-# Mandatory headers take precedence over headers in the existing message and
-# thus overwrite them. Preservatory headers instruct mailplate to port their
-# data from the existing mail message. Headers in the existing message but not
-# defined in the template are dropped, unless --keep-unknown is given.
-#
-# Body and signature are separated by '-- '. If this sentinel is not found,
-# no signature is extracted.
-#
-# Templates can be interpolated and data filled into slots. Helper slots are
-# filled with the output of helper commands (which must be defined in the
-# configuration), environment variable slots are just that, and mail variable
-# slots can be filled with data obtained by running regexps or commands over
-# the message.
-#
-# This script can be run in multiple ways:
-#
-# As a filter, it applies a template to data from stdin and writes the result
-# to stdout.
-#
-# Given a file, it modifies the file, unless it cannot write to the file, in
-# which case it writes to stdout.
-#
-# When --editor is passed, the script spawns sensible-editor on the result. It
-# may thus be used as the editor for your mail user agent.
+# Please see the mailplate(1) manpage or the homepage for more information:
+#   http://madduck.net/code/mailplate/

 #
 # TODO: if headers like From are absent from the mail, they should not be kept
 # but replaced with a default.
 #
 # TODO: if headers like From are absent from the mail, they should not be kept
 # but replaced with a default.


@@ -500,4 +467,3 @@ if options.edit:
         sys.exit(posix.EX_USAGE)
 
     os.execlp('sensible-editor', 'sensible-editor', outfname)
         sys.exit(posix.EX_USAGE)
 
     os.execlp('sensible-editor', 'sensible-editor', outfname)

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