From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Sending attachments Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:19:29 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87k52rzyn1.fsf@benthic.rattlesnake.com> <873a9fw6dt.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87y6r7yp1y.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87ljn1dcc4.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1246969241 12911 80.91.229.12 (7 Jul 2009 12:20:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 12:20:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong , miles@gnu.org, ams@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 07 14:20:33 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MO9ew-0001ei-4t for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:20:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35563 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MO9et-0001qs-LW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:20:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MO9eV-0001pZ-Uo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:20:04 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MO9eN-0001oQ-Tq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:20:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33527 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MO9eM-0001oC-8p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:19:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:35479) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MO9eI-0002ON-2b; Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:19:50 -0400 Original-Received: from int-mx2.corp.redhat.com (int-mx2.corp.redhat.com [172.16.27.26]) by mx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n67CJeRN008783; Tue, 7 Jul 2009 08:19:40 -0400 Original-Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx2.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n67CJc04021695; Tue, 7 Jul 2009 08:19:39 -0400 Original-Received: from hase.home (dhcp-64-164.muc.redhat.com [10.32.64.164] (may be forged)) by ns3.rdu.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n67CJTQU013547; Tue, 7 Jul 2009 08:19:34 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:05:41 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.95 (gnu/linux) X-Yow: Nice decor! X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.58 on 172.16.27.26 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:112136 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > We should not add yet another mime library to Emacs, when we already > have one (mml.el). > > Etach and mml both deal with puttimg mime into a message, but in very > different ways. mml.el requires the user to write text in the MML > language and then convert it into mime. It doesn't. There are front-end functions that do all that for you. > Etach has a convenient interface M-x attach which attaches a file in > the message in the current buffer. As does MML (mml-attach-file). Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."