Re: Get \201 when I edit mail

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:

> Given the recent discussion in the gnu.emacs newsgroups, I am under the
> impression that this is actually a bug in MULE. 

Well -- it has more to do with how Gnus de/encodes things "manually".

I've been thinking quite a bit about how to do article editing, and I
just can't see any way to allow that in an elegant way -- especially
with MIME gunk and MULE gunk in the way.

The two possible approaches that I see are these:

1) When editing a MIME message, not necessarily a multipart one, but
   that as well, we plop the user into something that looks more or
   less like a Message buffer with the article in.  Multipart articles
   are transformed into MML (text parts just get a "part" marker
   before them and non-text parts get a part that has the contents in
   an external file).  When finishing the editing, Gnus does what
   Message does -- transforms the MML back into MIME.

   This approach means that the user has little actual control over
   the details of the resulting article.  For instance, parts of the
   result may be base64-d, etc.

2) Do a `C-u g' before the editing, and let the user edit the
   completely raw article.

I don't really see any middle road.

Of course, if we have 1), we also must have 2).  But 1) will be a
major bitch to write, I think.

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen