From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: rmail and mime encoded patches annoyance Date: Fri, 19 May 2023 03:17:27 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83sfbsu8el.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="13100"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri May 19 09:18:25 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 1pzuNc-000399-Iu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 19 May 2023 09:18:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pzuMk-00029q-Kf; Fri, 19 May 2023 03:17:30 -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 1pzuMh-00029C-Vx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 May 2023 03:17:28 -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 1pzuMh-0007eO-Lk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 May 2023 03:17:27 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=zwqmtZ6OIFbCNvKyGEIc2h6mlZvgnspWWR+cvQF94Fg=; b=GP4NImLNzBWh 7m7KvfoiVxDgue75UtCxb31vcfI9IP6eR5AGZb1Zy/aIYWb2eo9d50/2KFIr6UcMx6qZ2lvsbt+ab djMLGNg9mHGEYwJCveVKSgbtRg7BLRSb50t08qUctDFVIhtBQ087xyCpA5ThqBGBGYQLrz9He0i9H 0RjZ7OkaJuWf6t1/FuNhag/ibn0ZUxT2s0e7fcKR9okOA5JoGG+2R8jYZLZjLYFS0XfbQyRLqH5Ru DtQ1O9rLySBLAg+PZM6q3vND5QCdmS+dO+qXaWGZBa+ebAnFrE0jtmUDAKV3iB6/KtXI1w0zbuw7H dqIu1nu08HMNzs88FObLEA==; Original-Received: from ams by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pzuMh-0007DI-9Y; Fri, 19 May 2023 03:17:27 -0400 In-Reply-To: <83sfbsu8el.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Fri, 19 May 2023 09:45:06 +0300) 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:306199 Archived-At: > 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, It is more for commenting about the patch, in this case. One could start a new reply, but those aren't presitent, and sometimes patches take a week or two to go over. Similar, I use this for longer responses, where I edit the message and add my reply/comments/... and then save the RMAIL buffer. And when you're done, you just reply with the notes you did. Alas MIME is more and more prevailant, Rmail Edit sorta has gotten more and more cumbersome to use. :( 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. Doing that multiple times a day gets old quick; was hoping to find a better way.