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From: Marius Hofert <marius.hofert@math.ethz.ch>
To: Uday Reddy <usr.vm.rocks@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs help <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Gnus: How to simplify file attachments?
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:21:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0DF96C4D-E8FE-49E4-A0D3-EE174AC4851E@math.ethz.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F147442.2030409@gmail.com>

Dear Uday,

thanks for reporting this. 
I'm not an elisp programmer, but it's good to know that it's not a local issue but rather a Mac-related problem in general. 
I'll report news if there are any.

Cheers,

Marius


On 2012-01-16, at 20:02 , Uday Reddy wrote:

> Hofert Jan Marius wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> So it seems to be a problem on Mac OS X. 
>> 
>> Any ideas? 
> 
> Yes, the Mac (NextStep) version of Emacs seem to use a different
> protocol.  Here is what we do in VM:
> 
> 1. In the keymap for messaging, we have
> 
>    (define-key map [ns-drag-file] 'vm-ns-attach-file)
> 
> 2. vm-ns-attach-file is defined as:
> 
> ;;;###autoload
> (defun vm-ns-attach-file ()
>  "Insert a drag and drop file as a MIME attachment in a VM
> composition buffer.  This is a version of `vm-dnd-attach-file'
> that is needed for Mac and NextStep."
>  (interactive)
>  (let ((file (car ns-input-file))
> 	type)
>    (unless vm-send-using-mime
>      (error (concat "MIME attachments disabled, "
> 		     "set vm-send-using-mime non-nil to enable.")))
>    (when (and file (file-regular-p file))
>      (setq ns-input-file (cdr ns-input-file))
>      (setq type (or (vm-mime-default-type-from-filename file)
> 		     "application/octet-stream"))
>      (vm-attach-file file type))))
> 
> This doesn't solve the problem for you in Gnus.  But, something similar
> would be needed.
> 
> Cheers,
> Uday
> 






  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-17 11:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.1630.1326275422.15002.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-01-16 19:02 ` Gnus: How to simplify file attachments? Uday Reddy
2012-01-17 11:21   ` Marius Hofert [this message]
2012-01-11  9:50 Hofert  Jan Marius
     [not found] <mailman.203.1323806580.15002.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-01-04 19:52 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-01-04 21:29   ` Marius Hofert
2012-01-05  5:24     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
     [not found]       ` <m2pqeyy5a2.fsf@80-218-246-165.dclient.hispeed.ch>
2012-01-06 22:07         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-01-07  3:42           ` Leo
2012-01-07  7:10             ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-01-07 15:45             ` Marius Hofert
2012-01-07 18:23               ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-01-08 12:19               ` Leo
2012-01-08 14:04                 ` Sivaram Neelakantan
2012-01-08 15:46                 ` Marius Hofert
2012-01-08 16:19                   ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-01-09  8:09                 ` Marius Hofert
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-12-13 20:02 Marius Hofert
2011-12-15 15:13 ` Martyn Jago
2011-12-17 17:34   ` Uday S Reddy

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