From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Editing email replies Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 14:54:05 GMT Organization: Genuity, Woburn, MA Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1030719882 4921 127.0.0.1 (30 Aug 2002 15:04:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 15:04:42 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17knKC-0001H7-00 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 17:04:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17knLd-00032R-00; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 11:06:09 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!nntp.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!paloalto-snf1.gtei.net!crtntx1-snh1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!paloalto-snr1.gtei.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh,gnu.emacs.help Mail-Copies-To: never X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test72 (19 April 1999) Originator: barmar@genuity.net (Barry Margolin) Original-Lines: 35 Original-X-Trace: /bNDCzNbLYjKAIE516ipDcTqCeovUvdqlFnZdtc32QCOTllNskLE8OpbA6uDWvmHPxFNYasVpEXw!/p6hlakHoQrWH6GKI8CPcjJQBTrrsMoPXKlo+Cf3XqtJZ/OIeF1TzHsVMAInXCQhEfMZeHkOS/20!ZiE2ui2KYyLg Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@gte.net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 14:54:05 GMT Original-Distribution: world Original-Xref: nntp.stanford.edu comp.mail.mh:9832 gnu.emacs.help:104320 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:892 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:892 In article , pd wrote: >I've been thinking about how to edit replies to MIME messages that use >multipart/alternative. For example, suppose the message has a text/plain >alternative and a text/html alternative, as shown below. When I insert some >plain text in my reply, I'd really like the resulting message to have the >two alternatives for the text before my insertion, then my insertion in >plain text, and then the two alternatives after my insertion. > >In other words, I want to go from: > > multipart/alternative > text/plain > text/html > >to > > multipart/mixed > multipart/alternative > text/plain > text/html > text/plain <--- my reply! > multipart/alternative > text/plain > text/html This seems like it would be extremely difficult to automate, because Emacs would have to determine which parts of the plain and HTML alternatives correspond to each other, so that it can find the correct dividing points. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@genuity.net Genuity, Woburn, MA *** DON'T SEND TECHNICAL QUESTIONS DIRECTLY TO ME, post them to newsgroups. Please DON'T copy followups to me -- I'll assume it wasn't posted to the group.