From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Rmail-mbox branch Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:36:35 +0900 Message-ID: <8763pc4oy4.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <87zlprvod0.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4868CF84.1040005@pajato.com> <48A90589.4020804@pajato.com> <48A91146.60200@pajato.com> <48A968A3.8050806@pajato.com> <48BA1DAE.2030005@pajato.com> <874p51xblf.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> <84od39q9mv.fsf@boris.laptop> <84abesum0g.fsf@boris.laptop> <841w03v389.fsf@boris.laptop> <84wshvtgoz.fsf@boris.laptop> <87od363q1i.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220495519 6320 80.91.229.12 (4 Sep 2008 02:31:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 02:31:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Evil Boris , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 04 04:32:53 2008 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 1Kb4eT-0002nV-1R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Sep 2008 04:32:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41329 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kb4dT-0004pJ-PT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:31:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kb4dQ-0004p0-Ce for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:31:48 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kb4dO-0004oa-3K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:31:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51162 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kb4dN-0004oX-S9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:31:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mtps02.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]:58358) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kb4dI-00015i-Qe; Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:31:41 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mtps02.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DAD67FFC; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 11:31:32 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 341FE1A260E; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 11:36:35 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 8.0.12-devo-585 under 21.5 (beta28) "fuki" 78738a40e31e XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: 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:103526 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > > MIME media-type text bodies may use Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit, > > which would allow you to save the predecoded text body. But who > > cares? Nobody sends multimegabyte text/plain messages; decoding per > > display is not an efficiency problem. > > Indeed, decoding upon display is not a problem. The problem that's new > for Pmail is that Rmail allows the user to edit a message, so Pmail will > need to be able to re-encode a displayed message. Yup. Continuing to maintain Rmail, even with a more-commonly-used mailbox format, is going to be an ongoing headache IMO.