From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Teemu Likonen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Sending attachments Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:40:08 +0300 Message-ID: <87tz1n2q7r.fsf@iki.fi> References: <87k52rzyn1.fsf@benthic.rattlesnake.com> <873a9fw6dt.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87y6r7yp1y.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87ljn1dcc4.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4A5485D0.5060808@gnu.org> <87d48b9trl.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <871vor45w8.fsf@iki.fi> <87y6qz8d1y.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1247064113 19931 80.91.229.12 (8 Jul 2009 14:41:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 14:41:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Jason Rumney , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 08 16:41:46 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 1MOYLB-0006ks-CZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:41:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35235 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MOYLA-0005FE-SY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:41:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MOYJh-0003Po-RM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:40:13 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MOYJc-0003Kh-LK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:40:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58206 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MOYJc-0003KG-7k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:40:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mta-out.inet.fi ([195.156.147.13]:48576 helo=kirsi1.inet.fi) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MOYJY-0005TC-CQ; Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:40:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mithlond.arda.local (80.220.180.181) by kirsi1.inet.fi (8.5.014) id 49F6055A02891C60; Wed, 8 Jul 2009 17:40:03 +0300 Original-Received: from dtw by mithlond.arda.local with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MOYJc-00061Q-JD; Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:40:08 +0300 In-Reply-To: <87y6qz8d1y.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:27:53 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:112184 Archived-At: On 2009-07-08 23:27 (+0900), Miles Bader wrote: > Teemu Likonen writes: >> It's very useful to have a choice. For small textual file the >> "inline" type is good because it can be seen and read without further >> action. > > Sure, I agree there are times when inline can be useful -- my > objection was to the (apparent) idea of having inline be the default > without prompting (I think _if_ people want to avoid prompting, inline > is the wrong default). Oh yes, I agree very much, inline would be wrong default if the question was totally hidden. I wanted to point out that those "annoying questions" (according to Richard) are _useful_ questions to me.