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From: Jan Vroonhof <vroonhof@math.ethz.ch>
Subject: Re: mm
Date: 19 Oct 1998 11:08:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <byems4x6jy.fsf@bolzano.math.ethz.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sat, 17 Oct 1998 19:43:03 GMT"

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

> > Why is the *mm* buffer which is displaying an article sent as a MIME
> > attachment editable? Couldn't it act like an article buffer instead?
> 
> Well -- the *mm* buffer is just a fundamental-mode buffer used to
> put things before they are run through whatever function they are
> supposed to be treated with.  The contents are, in general, not actual
> articles, so I think article-mode keys would be inappropriate.

I think he is talking about MIME pars with a "message/rfc-822" (or
something like that) similar (These are produced using MIME style
forwarding). These should get the fullblown GNUS treatment, similar to 
what we do now for old style forwarded articles and digets.

Jan


  parent reply	other threads:[~1998-10-19  9:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-10-13  2:09 mm Michael Harnois
1998-10-17 19:32 ` mm Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-10-18 15:47   ` mm Hrvoje Niksic
1998-10-18 16:31     ` mm Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-10-19  9:08   ` Jan Vroonhof [this message]
1998-10-19 19:16     ` mm Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-10-20  7:37       ` mm Jan Vroonhof

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