NEXT(1)

✨ NEXT(1) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the NEXT page from the General Commands Manual 💖 this one lives in the nmh family and it's literally the "next slide please" of your mailbox. periodt.

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🦋 NAME 🦋

next — show the next nmh message 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

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

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so what does next actually do? it performs a show on the next message in the folder you specify (or the current folder if you don't specify one, no stress) 🫶

like show, it passes any switches straight on through to the program showproc or showmimeproc, which is the thing that's actually called to list the message. it's the messenger, not the message, iykyk ✨

this command is almost exactly equivalent to show next. and when they say almost, they mean go read show(1) for all the details because this page is not about to re-explain the whole thing. consult the manual entry for show(1), bestie, it has the lore 📖

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💜 FILES 💜

• $HOME/.mh_profile — the user profile 🏠

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🌈 PROFILE COMPONENTS 🌈

• Path: — to determine the user's nmh directory
• Current-Folder: — to find the default current folder
• showproc: — program to show non-MIME messages
• showmimeproc: — program to show MIME messages

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• prev(1)
• show(1)

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⭐ DEFAULTS ⭐

• +folder — the current folder.
• -checkmime
• -header

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🧚 CONTEXT 🧚

if a folder is specified, it will become the current folder. and the message that gets shown (i.e., the next message in sequence) will become the current message. so you move, and it moves with you. main character energy fr fr 👑

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💀 BUGS 💀

not me having to tell you this but next is really a link to the show program. 😭

as a result, if you make a link to next and that link is not called next, your link will act like show instead. sneaky!! to circumvent this, add a profile-entry for the link to your nmh profile and add the argument next to the entry. problem solved, slay 💅

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! this was nmh-1.8, dated 1999-04-30, and it's the NEXT(1) page — iconic behavior honestly. go show some messages, you got this 🌸💖✨🦋🎀