From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sivaram Neelakantan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Gnus: How to simplify file attachments? Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2012 19:34:27 +0530 Message-ID: <821ura5lzo.fsf@gmail.com> References: <1D83305A-6FE0-44A7-A74D-D2681520068F@math.ethz.ch> <4C9CC024-8FB9-4DAD-A795-9CACEE9CCE66@math.ethz.ch> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1326031490 8703 80.91.229.12 (8 Jan 2012 14:04:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 14:04:50 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 08 15:04:46 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 1RjtMc-0004F7-3e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Jan 2012 15:04:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36788 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RjtMb-0006R5-MP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Jan 2012 09:04:45 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:59005) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RjtMX-0006Qm-Es for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jan 2012 09:04:42 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RjtMW-0006i0-G5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jan 2012 09:04:41 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:36219) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RjtMW-0006hv-AQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jan 2012 09:04:40 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RjtMV-0004Bh-B5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jan 2012 15:04:39 +0100 Original-Received: from 123.201.50.148 ([123.201.50.148]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 08 Jan 2012 15:04:39 +0100 Original-Received: from nsivaram.net by 123.201.50.148 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 08 Jan 2012 15:04:39 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 32 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 123.201.50.148 User-Mail-Address: nsivaram.net@gmail.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.110017 (No Gnus v0.17) Emacs/23.3 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:qMX8buF3jaKmxli6lC/vYL8vI1M= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 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:83412 Archived-At: On Sun, Jan 08 2012,Leo wrote: > On 2012-01-07 23:45 +0800, Marius Hofert wrote: >> Can you explain how, please? >> If I DnD a .pdf to a new message buffer (Gnus v5.13, Emacs 24, Mac OS >> X 10.7.2), the *code* of the .pdf file is inserted, not a link to the >> .pdf file as attachment. To be more precise, a huge amount of code is >> inserted starting with "%PDF-1.5..." (as if you look at the .pdf file >> as .txt). >> Furthermore, DnD of an attachment out of a received email also did >> not work under my setup above. I just can't "grab" the .pdf. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Marius > > I just used the mouse to drop a file on to this buffer. Worked > perfectly. I am using emacs-23(Macport) + gnus(from emacs-24). > Can confirm that DnD attachments work for me too. GNU Emacs 23.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2011-03-10 on 3249CTO No Gnus v0.17 [snipped 34 lines] sivaram --