From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/60839 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Katsumi Yamaoka Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Not prompting user in gnus-mime-delete-part and Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 10:36:43 +0900 Organization: Emacsen advocacy group Message-ID: References: <87r7cfxfma.fsf@uwo.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1125365872 16203 80.91.229.2 (30 Aug 2005 01:37:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 01:37:52 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M9371=ding+2Daccount=gmane.org@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Aug 30 03:37:51 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E9v3e-0006kJ-Gc for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 03:37:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1E9v3d-0001Jy-00 for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 20:37:01 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1E9v3Y-0001Jq-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 20:36:56 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1E9v3V-00035i-Gf for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 20:36:53 -0500 Original-Received: from washington.hostforweb.net ([66.225.201.13]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1E9v3U-0006Ij-00 for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 03:36:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by washington.hostforweb.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.50) id 1E9v3d-0005mZ-JU for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 20:37:01 -0500 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Face: #kKnN,xUnmKia.'[pp`;Omh}odZK)?7wQSl"4o04=EixTF+V[""w~iNbM9ZL+.b*_CxUmFk B#Fu[*?MZZH@IkN:!"\w%I_zt>[$nm7nQosZ<3eu;B:$Q_:p!',P.c0-_Cy[dz4oIpw0ESA^D*1Lw= L&i*6&( User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:hE0opswgCKIbskC/afST9tWw124= X-Hashcash: 1:20:050830:ding@gnus.org::zG4i58lvajlsKQ6o:000082FX X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - washington.hostforweb.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gnus.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - jpl.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-Spam-Score: -4.8 (----) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:60839 Archived-At: >>>>> In 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!).