Re: Imroving deleting/stripping MIME parts

[Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca>]

Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:

> On Sun, Aug 28 2005, Reiner Steib wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Aug 27 2005, Dan Christensen wrote:
>>
>>> While we're discussing this function, it would be nice if point
>>> stayed in the *Article* buffer after this was complete, making
>>> it easier to tab to the next MIME part and strip it.
>>
>> I agree that stripping/deleting several parts with Gnus is painful.
>> I've implemented (but not yet committed) some improvements in this
>> area:
>>
>> ,----[ C-h v gnus-auto-advance-part RET ]
>> | gnus-auto-advance-part's value is 1
> [...]
>> With this value, you can delete several parts by using `d' repeatedly.
>
> (... if `gnus-expert-user' is t.)  Added.

Thanks for adding this.  For the record, you seem to have named
the variable gnus-auto-select-part.

This works well in my (limited) tests.

>> Additionally I'd like to add `K O' (gnus-article-save-part-and-strip)
>> and `K d' (gnus-article-delete-part) making it easier to strip or
>> delete parts using a prefix argument:
>
> Added.

While in the summary buffer, typing `2 K d' did the right thing.
But `2 K O' gave an error message, 

  gnus-mime-delete-part: No MIME part under point

Dan