bug#5154: 23.1.50; mml-attach-file: say how to attach several files

bug#5154: 23.1.50; mml-attach-file: say how to attach several files

[jidanni]

Both (info "(message) MIME") and the docstring of:
C-c C-a runs the command mml-attach-file,
should mention how to attach several files all at once.

e.g., one wants to attach
DSCN2764.JPG DSCN2765.JPG DSCN2766.JPG DSCN2769.JPG DSCN2771.JPG DSCN2772.JPG
all at once and not one at a time.

Or say it is not possible, and to use another MUA instead.

bug#5154: 23.1.50; mml-attach-file: say how to attach several files

[Kevin Rodgers]

jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
> Both (info "(message) MIME") and the docstring of:
> C-c C-a runs the command mml-attach-file,
> should mention how to attach several files all at once.

Why?  It clearly attaches a single file.

> e.g., one wants to attach
> DSCN2764.JPG DSCN2765.JPG DSCN2766.JPG DSCN2769.JPG DSCN2771.JPG DSCN2772.JPG
> all at once and not one at a time.

Then you should contribute the implementation of such a feature.

> Or say it is not possible, and to use another MUA instead.

Ridiculous.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA

bug#5154: 23.1.50; mml-attach-file: say how to attach several files

[Reiner Steib]

On Tue, Dec 08 2009, Kevin Rodgers wrote:

> jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
>> Both (info "(message) MIME") and the docstring of:
>> C-c C-a runs the command mml-attach-file,
>> should mention how to attach several files all at once.
>
> Why?  It clearly attaches a single file.

I tend to agree that (info "(message) MIME") should tell it.  This
node is the relevant one when doing an index search for "attach" in
the message manual.

>> e.g., one wants to attach
>> DSCN2764.JPG DSCN2765.JPG [...] DSCN2771.JPG DSCN2772.JPG
>> all at once and not one at a time.
>
> Then you should contribute the implementation of such a feature.

,----[ (info "(gnus)Other modes") ]
| `C-c C-m C-a'
|      Send dired's marked files as an attachment (`gnus-dired-attach').
|      You will be prompted for a message buffer.
`----

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bug#5154: 23.1.50; mml-attach-file: say how to attach several files

[jidanni]

RS> ,----[ (info "(gnus)Other modes") ]
RS> | `C-c C-m C-a'
RS> |      Send dired's marked files as an attachment (`gnus-dired-attach').
RS> |      You will be prompted for a message buffer.
That requires a change to one's .emacs file.
I wish one could just do 0 w in dired to snarf the full filenames, and
then some command in the message-buffer to tell them to message-mode.

bug#5154: 23.1.50; mml-attach-file: say how to attach several files

[Juri Linkov]

> RS> ,----[ (info "(gnus)Other modes") ]
> RS> | `C-c C-m C-a'
> RS> |      Send dired's marked files as an attachment (`gnus-dired-attach').
> RS> |      You will be prompted for a message buffer.
> j> That requires a change to one's .emacs file.
>
> Why, to load gnus-dired?  I haven't experienced your scenario.

Not only to load gnus-dired, but also to call `turn-on-gnus-dired-mode'
on a Dired buffer to enable `C-c C-m C-a'.  This is too inconvenient.

> j> I wish one could just do 0 w in dired to snarf the full filenames, and
> j> then some command in the message-buffer to tell them to message-mode.
>
> Something like message-dired?  It certainly seems, reading gnus-dired,
> that most of it is not Gnus-specific.

If you want to create a new command `message-dired', then please also
implement a better UI, e.g. `C-c C-m C-a' in the Message buffer could
pop-up a Dired buffer where after marking files you could type `C-c C-c'
to close it and add marked files as attachments to the current Message
buffer.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/