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

> Wes Hardaker <wjhardaker@ucdavis.edu> writes:
> 
> > I'd hate to have to parse the text above to figure out when to put in
> > parts hidden below, and stuff.
> 
> The user shouldn't have to think about this at all.  The user taps,
> `C-c C-a cindy.gif RET', and that's it.

It would be nice if the user were further prompted for content-type
(with the correctly guessed default) and a one-line description to go
to content-description.

> Exposing the junk at the end would do no harm to the user interface,
> but it might be confusing.  The same could be said of other
> narrowing modes, like tar mode and info mode.  (Although one doesn't
> really edit much there, so they are a bit different, I guess.)

Yup.

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