From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: mail-add-attachment Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2011 21:40:47 -0400 Message-ID: References: <838vq60wm6.fsf@gnu.org> <837h5h69lf.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1315618863 25682 80.91.229.12 (10 Sep 2011 01:41:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 01:41:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 10 03:40:56 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R2CYy-00054G-Id for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Sep 2011 03:40:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40057 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R2CYx-0006lP-MR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Sep 2011 21:40:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:55030) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R2CYu-0006l7-Eq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Sep 2011 21:40:53 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R2CYt-0006TS-Ly for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Sep 2011 21:40:52 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.183]:46636 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R2CYs-0006TG-5W; Fri, 09 Sep 2011 21:40:50 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av0EAJ2/ak64rwMJ/2dsb2JhbABCqBd5gVIBAQVWIxALNBIUGA0kvz+GbgSgL4RC X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.68,359,1312171200"; d="scan'208";a="135415256" Original-Received: from 184-175-3-9.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([184.175.3.9]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 09 Sep 2011 21:40:48 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id D4CBF589E5; Fri, 9 Sep 2011 21:40:47 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sat, 10 Sep 2011 02:02:14 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.183 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:143836 Archived-At: >>>> > +\\[mail-attach-file] insert a text file into the message. >>>> > +\\[mail-add-attachment] add to the message a file as a MIME attachment. >>>> I think mail-attach-file needs to be renamed to mail-insert-file. >>> I thought about this, but isn't it too late to introduce incompatible >>> changes on the user level? This command is there by that name since >>> 1997. I would at most go with a new name and an alias that is >>> deprecated. >> Of course we'd keep an osolete alias. But since we're making changes >> anyway, I'd rather add that extra change to your patch. > You want to rename the command that adds an attachment to > `mail-insert-file'? Ok... fine by me... That's the thing: that command does not add an attachment, it's an old non-MIME command that inserts the content of a text file into the email text (with surrounding textual marks). It was a poor man's "attachment", but nowadays noone would be fooled into thinking that this is an attachment. Stefan