From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marius Hofert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Gnus: How to simplify file attachments? Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 22:29:13 +0100 Message-ID: <1D83305A-6FE0-44A7-A74D-D2681520068F@math.ethz.ch> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1251.1) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1325712570 24873 80.91.229.12 (4 Jan 2012 21:29:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 21:29:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Help To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 04 22:29:25 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RiYOi-0006SF-Pi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 22:29:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33253 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RiYOh-0005Qo-Tk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:29:23 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:49375) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RiYOc-0005QS-PI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:29:19 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RiYOb-0005HC-4Y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:29:18 -0500 Original-Received: from edge10.ethz.ch ([82.130.75.186]:17619) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RiYOa-0005H6-NF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:29:17 -0500 Original-Received: from CAS10.d.ethz.ch (172.31.38.210) by edge10.ethz.ch (82.130.75.186) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.1.355.2; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 22:29:11 +0100 Original-Received: from 80-218-246-165.dclient.hispeed.ch (80.218.246.165) by cas10.d.ethz.ch (172.31.38.210) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.1.355.2; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 22:29:14 +0100 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1251.1) X-Originating-IP: [80.218.246.165] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 82.130.75.186 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:83328 Archived-At: Thanks for answering this, I highly appreciate it and look forward to an = update.=20 Since I typically attach several documents, I currently switch to dired = mode, mark the attachments and add them to the current mail (via C-c C-m = C-a).=20 I really like many features of Gnus, but given the ease of use of modern = mail programs, I admit that especially attaching documents is far too = slow in Gnus. In Mac Mail for example, I can simply drag-and-drop = documents to a mail to attach them -- I don't have to switch buffers, = navigate to a folder via the minibuffer, hit C-C C-m C-a... If there was = a drag-and-drop feature, that would be very nice. Just a thought. It = would also be fantastic to have such a feature for saving attachments = (just drag them out of the mail buffer to somewhere).=20 A second (not related to this thread anymore but to the use of Gnus as a = mail program) thought is the following. I typically have one window open = all the time, running Gnus and checking mails every minute. Assume you = have another buffer open where you type text. Then, every minute, the = minibuffer shows "Checking new news...done" and when this is displayed, = I can't input text anymore. I first have to hit C-g before continuing as = normal. Not sure if it is possible to make Gnus more work in the = background not interfering with work done in other buffers, but that = would also be good. But I guess this is only a Mac problem since under = Linux one could run several emacs instances independently (and therefore = Gnus in a different emacs) [is that true? I don't have a linux box to = test that]. Cheers, Marius On 2012-01-04, at 20:52 , Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: > Marius Hofert writes: >=20 >> I use C-c C-a to attach files (e.g., a pdf file) in Gnus v5.13. I am = then asked: >> 1) "Content type (default application/pdf):" >> 2) "One line description:" >> 3) "Disposition (default attachment):" >> ... so quite a lot of questions. >=20 > Yeah, that's three questions too many. I think Message should just > guess at 1) and 3), and then the user can change it if the user wants > to. >=20 > 2) should just be removed. >=20 > However, Emacs 24 is in a feature freeze, so that'll have to wait = until > the next development cycle. >=20 > --=20 > (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) > bloggy blog http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/ ETH Zurich Dr. Marius Hofert RiskLab, Department of Mathematics HG E 65.2 R=E4mistrasse 101 8092 Zurich Switzerland Phone +41 44 632 2423 marius.hofert@math.ethz.ch http://www.math.ethz.ch/~hofertj