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: Mail mode vs message mode Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:57:18 +0900 Message-ID: References: <87639beb4n.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <200911152255.nAFMt1Xw028169@fed.local> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1258347464 12382 80.91.229.12 (16 Nov 2009 04:57:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:57:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Xavier Maillard Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 16 05:57:37 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 1N9tei-0004xD-Q6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:57:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44698 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N9tei-0005Bi-Co for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:57:36 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N9ted-0005BS-Ab for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:57:31 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N9teX-0005Aa-IY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:57:30 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48876 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N9teX-0005AX-F6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:57:25 -0500 Original-Received: from tyo202.gate.nec.co.jp ([202.32.8.206]:42079) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N9teU-0003FL-Fu; Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:57:23 -0500 Original-Received: from relay11.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.46]) by tyo202.gate.nec.co.jp (8.13.8/8.13.4) with ESMTP id nAG4vIhX015123; Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:57:18 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from relay11.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.20] [10.29.19.20]) by relay11.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:57:18 +0900 Original-Received: from dhlpc061 ([10.114.113.45] [10.114.113.45]) by relay11.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:57:18 +0900 Original-Received: by dhlpc061 (Postfix, from userid 31295) id 421AD52E1FA; Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:57:18 +0900 (JST) System-Type: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: <200911152255.nAFMt1Xw028169@fed.local> (Xavier Maillard's message of "Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:55:01 +0100") Original-Lines: 14 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 8 (1) 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:117029 Archived-At: Xavier Maillard writes: > maybe I am not the best player to speak here but why do you want > to replace mail-mode by message-mode exactly ? message-mode is, roughly-speaking, a superset of mail-mode, and offers generally desirable features (good mime support in particular) that mail-mode does not. -Miles -- Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.