Re: No more buttons by default?

[Matt Armstrong <matta@geoworks.com>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> 
> Anyway -- even though I don't like the buttons much, there may be an
> argument that it should be easy to handle MIME parts independently.
> One way would be to have commands like `o' and `|' (in the article
> buffer) work on the part under point -- if you place point on an
> image, it's fairly clear that you want to save that image; if you
> place point somewhere in the compilation error, you may want to save
> just the part that contains the compilation errors.

I like the idea of a separate "deal with attachment" buffer that pops up
a list of the parts and lets you choose which one to save/delete, etc. 
I'm thinking of the PC-Pine interface (screen shots at
http://www.best.com/~mattdav/mime/).  Something bothers me about having
to click around in the article buffer.
 
> However, the user must (I think) be given some visual clue as to where
> each parts starts (and stops).  The buttons are too heavy, but can
> anyone come up with some other clue that would be less intrusive?

Something like an HTML <hr> would look nice.  Maybe Xemacs can do that
kind of thing.  For FSF Emacs, maybe just a single line in a different
background color.  On a terminal, just a "--------------------------"
might work.  This is the way Netscape splits up the parts visually, and
I've always liked it.