From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Sending attachments Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:14:30 +0300 Message-ID: <83ws6kz4o9.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87k52rzyn1.fsf@benthic.rattlesnake.com> <873a9fw6dt.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87y6r7yp1y.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <877hyp3by2.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87r5wvdw57.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <833a991sf6.fsf@gnu.org> <83y6r1yy63.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1246994092 31632 80.91.229.12 (7 Jul 2009 19:14:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 19:14:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 07 21:14:45 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 1MOG7n-00056R-Vp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:14:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50468 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MOG7n-0002Ue-5N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:14:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MOG7i-0002UZ-2s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:14:38 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MOG7h-0002UN-Dh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:14:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=38545 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MOG7h-0002UK-8P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:14:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout6.012.net.il ([84.95.2.16]:59125) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MOG7c-0003h0-6R; Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:14:33 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.i-mtaout6.012.net.il by i-mtaout6.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KMF00J00ELIZO00@i-mtaout6.012.net.il>; Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:14:30 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.249.41]) by i-mtaout6.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KMF00F8EES5KD20@i-mtaout6.012.net.il>; Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:14:30 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (1203?) 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:112147 Archived-At: > From: Miles Bader > Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:54:25 +0900 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > >> How, exactly, is message-mode an "imposition" on "people who are happy > >> with simple modes"? > > > > If you insist on everyone switching to message-mode and making > > mail-mode obsolete, you are imposing message-mode on them. > > "imposition" is pejorative So is ``leaky bandaids''. > > This old fart simply doesn't want to learn a new mode unless it's > > absolutely necessary. Is this so hard to understand? > > What if the new mode is effectively indistinguishable from the old mode? My gray hair says there ain't no such thing. If it's more powerful and sophisticated, there's some price to pay.