From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/68653 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Sending attachments Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:56:04 -0400 Message-ID: <87tz1qzqm3.fsf@stupidchicken.com> 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1246887808 22686 80.91.229.12 (6 Jul 2009 13:43:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 13:43:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: yamaoka@jpl.org, yandros@MIT.EDU, emacs-devel@gnu.org, ding@gnus.org, Miles Bader To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 06 15:43:20 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 1MNoTY-0006JG-7k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:43:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45292 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MNoTX-0004Ip-Jp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:43:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MNoRg-0003Xx-1R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:41:24 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MNoRa-0003V9-TD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:41:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51088 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MNoRa-0003V4-OB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:41:18 -0400 Original-Received: from pantheon-po34.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.80]:39587) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MNoRW-0005yu-Vf; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:41:15 -0400 Original-Received: from furry (dhcp128036014241.central.yale.edu [128.36.14.241]) (authenticated bits=0) by pantheon-po34.its.yale.edu (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id n66DfDax018346 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Mon, 6 Jul 2009 09:41:13 -0400 Original-Received: by furry (Postfix, from userid 1000) id EEF63C111; Sun, 5 Jul 2009 18:56:04 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <83hbxr0zc6.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:16:57 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-YaleITSMailFilter: Version 1.2c (attachment(s) not renamed) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 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:112078 gmane.emacs.gnus.general:68653 Archived-At: 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.