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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:
> 
> > Please please do.  At the cost of a few more words, the code will be
> > much saner, and easier to replace with something else.
> 
> Well, I agree about the sanity, but how would this make it easier to
> replace it with something else?

Well, I can do:

(defun my-handle-tester (handle)
  ... lots of code here ...)

...and then I can stick `my-handle-tester' as the function.  And it's
more Lispy anyway.  :-)

> > > > Also, the variable could probably stand a better name.
> > > > `mm-inline-media-tests' is, uhm, less than suggestive.
> > > 
> > > Well, they are tests to see whether media can be displayed inline...
> > > :-)
> > 
> > How about `mm-types-displayable-inline'?
> 
> I like my name better.  :-)

What you'll name the variable "Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen"???

:-)

> > > But patches shouldn't be text/plain, since they aren't...
> > 
> > Huh?
> 
> Patches should be application/octet-stream or application/x-patch.

Yuck.  As an example, patches sent to xemacs-reviews are meant to be
read by humans as least as much as they are meant for the machine.  I
think it's perfectly fine to send them off as text/plain.