Re: `b'

[Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>]

François Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> > In a true MIME-viewing mode, `o' should save only the message
> > body, one should be able to access the unhacked headers, uuencoded
> > messages should work just like they do with regular buttons, etc.
> > [...]  I'd like for instance `o' to save the messages without the
> > (bogus) headers.  I would also prefer headers not to be inherited
> > and shown.
> 
> `C-d' does not attempt to trigger a MIME-viewing mode.

I know.  I would prefer if it did trigger a Summary-based MIME viewing 
mode, but I've obviously lost that battle.

> > For the latter, I'd like the code to use the existing Gnus MIME
> > engine (the mm-* stuff), so that it works for uuencoded files,
> > etc.
> 
> I think, I may be biased (:-), that `C-d' does its job well, and
> even, that the code is not so badly written.  Maybe it could do
> better now using `mm-*' stuff?  Such `mm-*' did not exist at the
> time `C-d' became able to split MIME parts, and `C-d' has most
> probably not been reevaluated since then.  You say that using `mm-*'
> will give us `uuencoded' parts?  Anything else?

mm- code might be more correct about various other MIME thingies that
come into play over time.  And the code is already conceived as a
library.  Long-term, I think it would simply make more sense to use it 
rather than the home-grown stuff.  It's only a wish, though.

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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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