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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next prev parent 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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