From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/18627 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bruce Stephens Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Scriptin' MIME Date: 14 Nov 1998 18:07:39 +0000 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035157118 7154 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:38:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:38:38 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from karazm.math.uh.edu (karazm.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.1]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA22701 for ; Sat, 14 Nov 1998 13:19:01 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by karazm.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAB02764; Sat, 14 Nov 1998 12:18:46 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 14 Nov 1998 12:18:41 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [209.195.19.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA16935 for ; Sat, 14 Nov 1998 12:18:31 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-11.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.40]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA22688 for ; Sat, 14 Nov 1998 13:18:25 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from [193.237.0.193] (helo=cenderis.demon.co.uk) by post.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.05demon1 #1) id 0zekH7-0001ar-00 for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 14 Nov 1998 18:18:23 +0000 Original-Received: (from bruce@localhost) by cenderis.demon.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA03226; Sat, 14 Nov 1998 18:13:06 GMT Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "14 Nov 1998 16:30:17 +0100" X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.43/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Original-Lines: 29 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by sclp3.sclp.com id NAA22701 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:18627 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:18627 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > One thing that occurred to me while I was waking up just now was that > it might be neat to have a TeXinfo-like MIME interface. Like: > > @alternative > @part{text/plain} > This is plain text. > @part{text/enriched} > @charset{iso-8859-1} > This ïs enriched. > @part{image/gif} > @external{~/rms.gif} > @end{alternative} > > And so on. Commands for all the things one wants. A MIME composition > language. Which is basically what elm does. Or did. I haven't used it for a while. MH/nmh also provide something like this. Perhaps it would be good to use the same syntax, or something? Having a scriptable interface is convenient for some applications. For example, at work we send change requests and patches around to each other, packaging them in MIME. For reading it, we use a MUA, but it's handy to use a script to send them, since the script knows where to find the change requests and how to produce the patches.