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Excerpts from mail: (16-Nov-98) Re: MIME composition (was: Storing the group a message has been written to) by Per Abrahamsen
> I think we need a fascist widget based MIME compose method.  It may
> not auto-save properly unless we do something smart with
> `format-alist'.  But it should be easier for a novice user that the
> `markup language' based approach.
>
> Maybe the markup language can be used as the textual backend for a
> widget based MIME editor.

I agree totally. This MML stuff might be a fine basis for doing MIME
composition behind the scenes, but it should be completely invisble to the
user. With all due respect to Lars, as a user interface goes, MML is
shockingly bad, IMHO. I think I would rather see the raw MIME information
instead, like mime-compose.el does. I honestly feel that some combination of
text properties and/or invisible/intangible text with buttons/widgets as
user-visible markers for non-editable MIME parts is the way to go.