From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Davis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Editing email replies Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 23:18:58 GMT Organization: Pageflex Inc. Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1030836277 21060 127.0.0.1 (31 Aug 2002 23:24:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 23:24:37 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17lHbY-0005TZ-00 for ; Sun, 01 Sep 2002 01:24:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17lHcz-0002bz-00; Sat, 31 Aug 2002 19:26:05 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!nntp.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!nntp-server.caltech.edu!attla2!ip.att.net!attbi_feed3!attbi.com!rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh,gnu.emacs.help X-Face: @Pq3?My0v;TPXbg}b;pHV{1I-kH,?FV:1$wMunQgt%u;KIx8Jl%)8E;Tag?jQQu4+Q,/QiTe@x!bk'k@uXGAj?wVZSBSj}T1X}Yql~e]uv@#]I>5F:BJ;+\k5B&3hG3ZT8_{3>#[D)SbK/9t&3TG$L7SnV3G Original-Lines: 33 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp (Windows [1])) Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.147.208.212 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@attbi.com Original-X-Trace: rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att.net 1030835938 24.147.208.212 (Sat, 31 Aug 2002 23:18:58 GMT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 23:18:58 GMT Original-Xref: nntp.stanford.edu comp.mail.mh:9837 gnu.emacs.help:104356 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:923 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:923 Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-15?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) writes: > Peter Davis writes: > > > Actually, I just tried this with a certain well-known commercial > > e-mail package whose name starts with "E". What I got was a single > > multipart/alternative section, containing a text/plain and a > > text/html. However, the reply line I inserted had been inserted into > > both parts! That seems even more complicated. > > Wild guess: the E package threw away the text/plain alternative and > let you edit text/html. For sending, it took the text/html stuff > that you edited and sent a text/plain alternative of it. > > You might wish to test it by replying to a message which has aaaaa in > the text/plain and bbbb in the text/html alternative :-) Seems likely that that's what it did. Still, I'd like *some* way to edit such messages in emacs (with MH or gnus). I've actually had people complain to me that when I reply to their messages, all the formatting that they put in is lost. Ideas? -pd -- -------- Peter Davis Funny stuff at http://www.pfdstudio.com List of resources for children's writers and illustrators at: http://www.pfdstudio.com/cwrl.html