From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/68662 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Sending attachments Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:10:29 +0300 Message-ID: <834otp1sju.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87k52rzyn1.fsf@benthic.rattlesnake.com> <873a9fw6dt.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87y6r7yp1y.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <0922916E-B9DD-41C4-8A3D-8550CDD56B62@mit.edu> <83r5ww1m3k.fsf@gnu.org> <871vovsvi8.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <83ljn324xd.fsf@gnu.org> <87skhbrdz3.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <83hbxr0zc6.fsf@gnu.org> <87tz1qzqm3.fsf@stupidchicken.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1246911058 1153 80.91.229.12 (6 Jul 2009 20:10:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 20:10:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: yamaoka@jpl.org, yandros@MIT.EDU, emacs-devel@gnu.org, ding@gnus.org, miles@gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 06 22:10:50 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MNuWY-0004ss-Gn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:10:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45596 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MNuWX-00076d-RM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:10:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MNuWH-0006kD-Hm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:10:33 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MNuWG-0006ig-Nt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:10:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49163 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MNuWG-0006iH-I9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:10:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout4.012.net.il ([84.95.2.10]:51802 helo=mtaout3.012.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MNuWE-0004EG-Tv; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:10:31 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.i_mtaout3.012.net.il by i_mtaout3.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) id <0KMD00D00MGK8600@i_mtaout3.012.net.il>; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:10:30 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.249.41]) by i_mtaout3.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) with ESMTPA id <0KMD0049VMPG5MJ0@i_mtaout3.012.net.il>; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:10:29 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87tz1qzqm3.fsf@stupidchicken.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:112103 gmane.emacs.gnus.general:68662 Archived-At: > From: Chong Yidong > Cc: Miles Bader , yamaoka@jpl.org, yandros@MIT.EDU, > ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:56:04 -0400 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > >> Is adding layers and layers of poorly integrated leaky bandaids to > >> mail-mode really the path we want to follow? > > > > I have no idea why you thought I was about to add ``leaky bandaids''. > > RMS has suggested adding simple attachment functionality to mail-mode, > e.g. via etach. I haven't had time to look at the code of etach, but I > suspect that all this will accomplish is an incremental and incomplete > extension of mail-mode's feature set---not enough to catch up with > message-mode, but adding more code duplication. Even if I would agree with your point, it's still a far cry from leaky bandaids.