From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: RMAIL, MIME-related bug Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 21:48:21 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200310121947.h9CJlhKH006102@oak.pohoyda.family> <6480-Thu16Oct2003192118+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> <3405-Thu16Oct2003205828+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> <9003-Fri17Oct2003082402+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> <6480-Sat18Oct2003102948+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1066615030 4914 80.91.224.253 (20 Oct 2003 01:57:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 01:57:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 20 03:57:08 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ABPIC-0004kw-00 for ; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 03:57:08 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ABPIB-0004FL-00 for ; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 03:57:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ABPGT-0005qa-0v for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 19 Oct 2003 21:55:21 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ABPE8-0005Dd-SY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Oct 2003 21:52:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ABPDc-00059e-L8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Oct 2003 21:52:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ABPDc-00059W-5A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Oct 2003 21:52:24 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.24) id 1ABP9h-00076E-Va; Sun, 19 Oct 2003 21:48:21 -0400 Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-reply-to: (message from Eli Zaretskii on 19 Oct 2003 07:50:14 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:17248 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:17248 > We certainly would not document a MIME library in the Emacs Lisp > manual, because it is useful only for mail readers, and that is too > specialized. It is no less specialized than primitives like base64-decode-region. Those are primitives, and they are simple to document. Anyway, I'm just telling you what our policy is. Not every Emacs Lisp facility has to be documented in the Emacs Lisp manual.