bug#19788: 24.4; wishlist: gnus-dired like function in a summary buffer for attaching messages

[Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> david.goldberg6@verizon.net (Dave Goldberg) writes:
>
>> Desire is add messages as attachments.  Concept is similar to
>> gnus-dired only instead of marking files and running C-c C-a
>> (gnus-dired-attach), one would instead browse a summary (perhaps more
>> than one?) buffer, mark messages and then run C-c C-a (or some other
>> binding if more appropriate) to attach those messages.
>
> That sounds useful...  perhaps the code in gnus-dired can be refactored
> so that we don't have to implement the message-mode buffer twice...

I've had a look at gnus-dired, and there isn't that much code to reuse,
I think, so I'll just write some new code.  Shouldn't be a very long
function, I think...

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