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From: Alexander Pohoyda <alexander.pohoyda@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: New mail-related routines
Date: 26 Oct 2004 00:15:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871xfmh2at.fsf@oak.pohoyda.family> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ilu3c04b9w1.fsf@latte.josefsson.org>

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> Is there an updated version of your patch to review?  I think I agree
> with all comments raised so far.  It would be easier to review your
> code if there is an updated version to look at.

I'll post an updated version soon.  Meanwhile, I have realized that
some function from my patch are not as general as I wanted them to
be, so they don't belong into mail-utils.el file.


> I think it is important to improve documentation regarding these new
> functions.  Right now, similar functions are implemented many times in
> many places in Emacs.  It would be good if these could be fixed to use
> only one correct implementation.  If there is no guidance, people will
> just write new functions for the same purpose again, or use one of the
> existing but inelegant interfaces.

Yes, absolutely.  I hope we will agree on some "correct
implementation" so that we have something to document and use.


> Perhaps a new texinfo manual could be created, "Emacs Lisp Mail
> Functions" (or something), to document the recommended mail APIs to
> use in Emacs Lisp.  It should be in a non-MUA specific (Gnus, RMAIL
> etc) way.  Perhaps extending emacs-mime.texi is the right thing, it
> already contain some non-MIME, but generic purpose mail functions.

Yes, I have this in my TODO list.

Thank you very much for your input!


-- 
Alexander Pohoyda <alexander.pohoyda@gmx.net>
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  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-25 22:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-18 21:57 New mail-related routines Alexander Pohoyda
2004-10-18 22:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-10-19  7:06   ` Alexander Pohoyda
2004-10-19 12:51     ` Stefan Monnier
2004-10-19 18:37     ` Alexander Pohoyda
2004-10-19 19:29       ` Stefan Monnier
2004-10-19 23:56         ` Alexander Pohoyda
2004-10-19 12:32 ` Reiner Steib
2004-10-19 17:47   ` Alexander Pohoyda
2004-10-19 20:02     ` Reiner Steib
2004-10-20  0:03       ` Alexander Pohoyda
2004-10-24 12:03 ` Simon Josefsson
2004-10-25 22:15   ` Alexander Pohoyda [this message]
2004-10-25 22:43   ` Alexander Pohoyda
2004-10-26 23:16     ` Kevin Rodgers
2004-10-27 16:04       ` Alexander Pohoyda

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