From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: rmail and mime encoded patches annoyance Date: Fri, 19 May 2023 09:45:06 +0300 Message-ID: <83sfbsu8el.fsf@gnu.org> References: Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="15136"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Alfred M. Szmidt" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri May 19 08:45:47 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1pzts3-0003mR-5s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 19 May 2023 08:45:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pztrC-0003w2-SH; Fri, 19 May 2023 02:44:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pztrB-0003vu-J9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 May 2023 02:44:53 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pztrB-0002A3-Bg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 May 2023 02:44:53 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=/Im0EDWK4h6CD//5fuI4aL+Vly9D/sLfVOEms+suFfM=; b=N6cCJYAO6XSv iVq+yV6CarlGMNc3dzPK4lw3jqWWNa9ttG97PtMbyBhZE9WkZGorwJQHWcfbd+LJKX0nIpQWdjXkl f+yggKmpwnYNajCjZQPznoTtUxbRBLdIvO+UJflbUO4wX8zFzIlCVSAO1umyUq5yrJvjIcU/DCqWy BiiPuIBxMoiSYf8DZ7Xlhda8M8re5fsRdak7OPX2lElgFbl8UnpnDQCVysaV5wOd4HPsEmeSP6wAI WQT5qNjZQUdpnggtvQVYC3ZxqRFnAjg3hqzovfEcRMmN2/AglzklCbo2kr00ED7MlSxygQIDHeLIa l0ZcCyFGM7u78TcVOVK/Ig==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pztrA-0006Os-81; Fri, 19 May 2023 02:44:52 -0400 In-Reply-To: (ams@gnu.org) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:306198 Archived-At: > From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" > Date: Fri, 19 May 2023 02:11:03 -0400 > > Is there some way of "decoding the message" permantnetly into ASCII or > something, so that it now longer is MIME encoded? So you get "What I > See Is What I Edit" behaviour.. This would then also be useful when > one replies to such messages with inline comments to a patch. Not that I know of, no. MIME capabilities in Rmail are minimal, and do 90% of the job very well, but not much more. FWIW, I almost never use rmail-edit, and don't really understand why it's useful, let alone when a MIME patch is attached to it. If what you need is to edit the patch before applying it, then (a) that is not really recommended, since you will be applying code attributed to someone else with your own changes; and (b) you could always copy the patch to another buffer, edit it there, and then apply.