From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Sending attachments Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:39:58 +0900 Message-ID: <873a9fw6dt.fsf@catnip.gol.com> References: <87k52rzyn1.fsf@benthic.rattlesnake.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1246542035 16513 80.91.229.12 (2 Jul 2009 13:40:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 13:40:35 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 02 15:40:28 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 1MMMWZ-0000i6-Qo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:40:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43280 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MMMWZ-0007Je-0w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:40:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MMMWU-0007Ht-Cb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:40:22 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MMMWP-0007D9-M8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:40:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43942 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MMMWP-0007D2-KT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:40:17 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:35626 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MMMWP-0002EO-7U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:40:17 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MMMWH-0007mx-9z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:40:09 +0000 Original-Received: from 218.33.237.150.eo.eaccess.ne.jp ([218.33.237.150]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:40:09 +0000 Original-Received: from miles by 218.33.237.150.eo.eaccess.ne.jp with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:40:09 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 218.33.237.150.eo.eaccess.ne.jp System-Type: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Cancel-Lock: sha1:enIhtV+3RSOG0mBO7mSpgH41wDs= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:111909 Archived-At: bob@rattlesnake.com (Robert J. Chassell) writes: > Marc Andreessen wrote Emacs Lisp to add gif, jpeg, postscript, > raw-binary, and raw-nonbinary in 1992 in MIME and in 1993-95 Masanobu > UMEDA wrote Emacs Lisp to edit MIME text messages. > In 1996, Ray Moody wrote Emacs Lisp to read MIME. > > As far as I know, none were part of GNU Emacs. I can send the libraries > if wanted. Emacs _already_ has mime libraries; they seem to work quite well. Message mode (and Gnus) already uses them. Message mode is more or less a superset of mail-mode. It seems fairly obvious that the best solutions are: 1. In the long-term, merge mail-mode and message-mode. It's silly that there are two modes. AIUI, this is already an Emacs goal. 2. In the short-term, just use message mode when you want to send mime mail. No? -Miles -- Vote, v. The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.