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

> Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE writes:
> 
> > Suggestion: use a convenient in-buffer representation, and use the
> > `correct' MIME representation on disk.  Use format-alist to convert
> > between the two upon disk i/o.
> 
> That would probably be rather slow when autosaving, I think.

Not if you do it right.  For example, image attachments needn't be
actually base64'ed -- you can simply add `X-Gnus-Something' header
that names the file name of the image, etc.

> And there's not much to be gained, I think.

You gain the goals you set:

* nndrafts and autosaving is (more or less) guaranteed to work
  correctly;

* everything is within a single buffer/file;

* you are not inventing an all-new all-weird format for storing stuff.

> > By `inline' and `attachment' I don't mean content-disposition, I'm
> > referring to the looks of the message composition buffer.
> > `Inline' parts are shown inline while one is editing the messages,
> > and `attachment' parts are represented by a button.  For Emacs,
> > only textual parts will be inline, but for XEmacs, images can be
> > inline, too, right?
> 
> Yes, but I don't think displaying images inline when composing makes
> much sense.

Agreed.  VM doesn't do that, either.

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