Re: !MML

[Sean Doran <smd@ebone.net>]

Kai wrote:

| I think if you want to go the route of marking up MIME stuff with
| normal text (as opposed to text properties), then the markup should be
| something which is unlikely to occur in the normal mail text.
|
| Parentheses and SGML-like tags are too likely to occur in normal mail
| text, IMHO.

I think the point was to have an actual language for describing
MIME messages that would be amenable to automation, rather than
to have something specifically designed to be especially user-friendly.

Something Lisp-like seemed pretty natural since Gnus developers
seem pretty fluent in Lisp.

Also, Lisp is not especially user-unfriendly, so if someone who knows Lisp
had some reason to go munging the MIME message at the description-language
level, she or he would have a relatively small learning curve.

Normally keystroke mechanisms would be used to do the manipulation.

| What about saying that a line beginning with a special string is such
| a MIME markup?  Let's say lines beginning with "@.:" or something.
| (Don't use "@#$%", that'll be too often used for four-letter words :-)

Well, I guess APL is another strong candidate...

	Sean. (with mad visions of higher-order functions in Gnus-to-Gnus MIME)