From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: pmr@pajato.com, stephen@xemacs.org, ueno@unixuser.org,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Need some help with Rmail/mbox
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:48:44 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u3ajsow37.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvbpyg7sb0.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 23:58:49 -0400
> Cc: pmr@pajato.com, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, stephen@xemacs.org,
> emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> >> That would mean Rmail/mbox will need to use another unibyte scratch
> >> buffer for decoding MIME-encoded text: first qp- or b64-decode it into
> >> another unibyte buffer, then decode-coding-region from there to the
> >> (multibyte) display buffer.
>
> > Since the output of qp- or b64-decode is unibyte (unlike
> > decode-coding-region), we can reuse the same source buffer.
>
> Actually, better not: the real source buffer is the actual mbox file
> buffer
Right, exactly. Besides, one of the main design goals of Rmail/mbox
was to preserve the original mbox file intact, to avoid irreversible
changes due to some types of decoding.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-22 18:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-18 16:02 Need some help with Rmail/mbox Paul Michael Reilly
2008-09-19 3:28 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-09-19 5:35 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-09-19 9:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-20 7:12 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-09-20 10:04 ` Daiki Ueno
2008-09-20 10:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-20 10:46 ` Daiki Ueno
2008-09-20 11:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-20 23:33 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-21 3:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-21 13:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-21 17:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-21 19:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-21 20:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-21 22:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-22 3:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-09-22 3:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-22 3:41 ` Daiki Ueno
2008-09-22 3:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-22 18:48 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2008-09-22 4:31 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-09-22 14:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-24 0:56 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-09-24 2:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-24 3:48 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-09-22 15:24 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-09-20 13:48 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-09-21 0:57 ` Daiki Ueno
2008-09-22 9:14 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-09-19 4:30 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-19 4:30 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-19 9:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
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