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From: Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>
Subject: Re: Not prompting user in gnus-mime-delete-part and
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 10:36:43 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b4mhdd8dx3o.fsf@jpl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <v9fysszteu.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de>

>>>>> In <v9fysszteu.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> Reiner Steib wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 29 2005, Katsumi Yamaoka wrote:

>> Yes, maybe.  (Although my worry is that it may also return `t'
>> even for some MIME structure which won't cause a problem, it
>> might be a needless fear since most of MIME composers cannot
>> make such a complex structure.

> Would it make sense to allow deleting/stripping despite of
> "complicated handles" after an additional prompt instead of "giving
> up"?

Well, although I didn't test all the cases, I remember vaguely
that some kind of article had broken.  So, I'm rather negative
to do so.

>>> We could put a warning into the doc strings and the manual.
>>
>> I agree.

> Would you like to add the warnings?

Now I think it is not necessary for the present code.  It might
become a new FAQ item, though.  When I tried to improve it and
failed, I considered we might need to rewrite the MIME display
engine wholly (yuck!).



  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-30  1:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-26 12:23 Not prompting user in gnus-mime-delete-part and gnus-mime-save-part-and-strip Reiner Steib
2005-08-27 20:57 ` Not prompting user in gnus-mime-delete-part and Dan Christensen
2005-08-28  0:32   ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2005-08-28 12:49     ` Reiner Steib
2005-08-29  0:19       ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2005-08-29 14:53         ` Reiner Steib
2005-08-30  1:36           ` Katsumi Yamaoka [this message]
2005-08-30  2:25         ` Dan Christensen
2005-08-30  6:07           ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2005-08-28 12:40   ` Imroving deleting/stripping MIME parts (was: Not prompting user in gnus-mime-delete-part and) Reiner Steib
2005-08-29 14:57     ` Imroving deleting/stripping MIME parts Reiner Steib
2005-08-30  2:22       ` Dan Christensen
2005-08-30 13:04         ` Reiner Steib
2005-08-30 15:25           ` Dan Christensen
2005-08-30 16:44             ` Reiner Steib
2005-08-31  4:18               ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2005-08-31 10:26                 ` Reiner Steib
2005-08-31 11:11                   ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2005-09-01  5:29                     ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2005-09-01 18:41                       ` Reiner Steib
2005-09-02  7:07                         ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2005-09-02 16:17                           ` Reiner Steib
2005-09-05  5:39                             ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2005-09-05 13:15                               ` Reiner Steib

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