From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: improve rmail's MIME handling Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:43:03 -0500 Message-ID: References: <83r5e874ab.fsf@gnu.org> <83d3poaihf.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291063407 7016 80.91.229.12 (29 Nov 2010 20:43:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 20:43:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, handa@m17n.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 29 21:43:23 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PNAZA-0002Xg-9d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Nov 2010 21:43:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59184 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PNAZ9-0004pP-LM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:43:15 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=49704 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PNAZ3-0004ox-IM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:43:10 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PNAZ0-00035T-Qc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:43:08 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:39531) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PNAZ0-00035O-Me for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:43:06 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PNAYx-0003UZ-5k; Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:43:03 -0500 In-reply-to: <83d3poaihf.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Mon, 29 Nov 2010 05:58:36 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.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:133240 Archived-At: It's ok to enable mime handling in Rmail by default if it is done in a convenient way. A convenient way is one that helps without forcing itself on you, without switching buffers unless you request it. It has to let you read textual attachments in the message buffer itself. It should not try to decode the non-textual attachments until you ask for specific ones. I would suggest making the non-textual attachments invisible, showing only their header lines. If you want to see the contents of one, you type v on it. -- Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org, www.gnu.org