Re: [PATCH v2] emacs: add function to toggle display of all multipart/alternative parts

[Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>]

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On Aug 10, 2012 7:18 PM, "Jameson Graef Rollins" <jrollins@finestructure.net>
wrote:
>
> On Fri, Aug 10 2012, Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> wrote:
> > How would this work together with something like [1] (rationale in [2])?
> >
> > [1] id:"
ab777cf0fa83778d3399ac52094df9230738819d.1328798471.git.jani@nikula.org"
> > [2] id:"cover.1328719309.git.jani@nikula.org"
> >
> > If you introduce a mechanism to store the state, could it be extended to
> > store the state of each individual part? That, in turn, could be used to
> > add support for expanding/collapsing each alternative part through the
> > buttons (e.g. [ text/html (not shown) ]). Each button could toggle the
> > state of the part, and refresh buffer.
>
> Hey, Jani.  Are these patches needed if we have Mark's patch?  I would
> prefer to see Mark's solution.  Since alternative parts are supposed to
> be just that, alternative, it seems to me that a solution that would
> cycle through display of these parts is really what we want.  Is there a
> strong need to show multiple alternative parts at the exact same time?

Thanks to broken Microsoft mail clients, I get plenty of invitations that
have text/plain and text/calendar alternative parts with information
complimenting each other. I usually need to see both (luckily the included
html part I can ignore) and it's helpful if I can see them at the same
time. In a perfect world neither you or me would need any of this
functionality...

I suppose cycling through the alternative parts is, in a sense, correct for
the reasons you state, we have the code here to do just that, and I can
always cook up something for myself. Let's go with this, then, to move
forward.

BR,
Jani.

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