From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: yamaoka@jpl.org, yandros@MIT.EDU, emacs-devel@gnu.org,
ding@gnus.org, Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Sending attachments
Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:56:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tz1qzqm3.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83hbxr0zc6.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:16:57 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-05 22:56 UTC|newest]
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2009-07-05 2:39 ` Miles Bader
2009-07-05 3:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-05 3:44 ` Miles Bader
2009-07-05 18:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-05 20:44 ` Miles Bader
2009-07-06 3:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-06 3:50 ` Miles Bader
2009-07-06 4:54 ` Miles Bader
2009-07-06 20:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-06 22:35 ` Miles Bader
2009-07-07 0:59 ` Kenichi Handa
2009-07-07 9:43 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-07-08 0:16 ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-11 15:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-07-06 6:37 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-07-06 7:47 ` Miles Bader
2009-07-06 20:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-06 14:13 ` Chong Yidong
2009-07-06 20:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-07 5:57 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2009-07-06 15:05 ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-11 19:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-07-11 19:41 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-07-12 3:05 ` Leo
2009-07-12 3:10 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-07-13 12:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-07-15 9:35 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-07-15 11:44 ` Richard Riley
2009-07-15 14:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-07-05 22:56 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2009-07-06 20:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-05 8:01 ` Andreas Schwab
2009-07-05 8:30 ` Miles Bader
2009-07-06 15:05 ` Richard Stallman
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2009-07-15 21:51 ` Reducing Gnus dependencies in message.el (was: Sending attachments) Reiner Steib
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2009-07-06 6:45 ` message-mode / mail-mode Reiner Steib
2009-07-11 10:04 ` Stefan Monnier
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2009-07-18 19:15 ` rfc2047.el dependencies on mm-util.el (was: Sending attachments) Reiner Steib
2009-07-19 4:36 ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-19 5:30 ` rfc2047.el dependencies on mm-util.el Stefan Monnier
2009-07-19 23:21 ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-20 18:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-07-20 18:26 ` Bastien
2009-07-20 18:45 ` Chong Yidong
2009-07-21 14:41 ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-19 18:10 ` rfc2047.el dependencies on mm-util.el (was: Sending attachments) Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-19 23:22 ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-22 21:57 ` Kevin Ryde
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