From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/19042 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Matt Armstrong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: No more buttons by default? Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 10:14:36 -0800 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <3657030C.7C283B52@geoworks.com> References: <199811192101.QAA02436@alderaan.gsfc.nasa.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035157464 9531 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:44:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:44:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from karazm.math.uh.edu (karazm.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.1]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA11185 for ; Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:22:18 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by karazm.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAB24771; Sat, 21 Nov 1998 12:16:54 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 21 Nov 1998 12:16:42 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA15993 for ; Sat, 21 Nov 1998 12:16:33 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from CAraptorUU.geoworks.com (CAraptorUU.geoworks.com [208.232.87.36]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA11112 for ; Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:16:26 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from maelstrom.geoworks.com by CAraptorUU.geoworks.com via smtpd (for sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) with SMTP; 21 Nov 1998 18:15:55 UT Original-Received: from quark.geoworks.com (quark.geoworks.com [198.211.201.100]) by maelstrom.geoworks.com (8.8.6/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA22981 for ; Sat, 21 Nov 1998 10:15:54 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from geoworks.com ([198.211.201.71]) by quark.geoworks.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA25717 for ; Sat, 21 Nov 1998 10:15:52 -0800 (PST) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:19042 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:19042 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
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.