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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:

> Please please do.  At the cost of a few more words, the code will be
> much saner, and easier to replace with something else.

Well, I agree about the sanity, but how would this make it easier to
replace it with something else?

> > > Also, the variable could probably stand a better name.
> > > `mm-inline-media-tests' is, uhm, less than suggestive.
> > 
> > Well, they are tests to see whether media can be displayed inline...
> > :-)
> 
> How about `mm-types-displayable-inline'?

I like my name better.  :-)

> > But patches shouldn't be text/plain, since they aren't...
> 
> Huh?

Patches should be application/octet-stream or application/x-patch. 

> > I agree with that.  Perhaps I should just alter the default to
> > exclude text/plain, and then the user who want to cater to such
> > software can add it?
> 
> Please do.

Ok; I've removed it.

> I've asked for this before, but I guess the mail got lost.

Probably not lost, but I have 323 unread articles in nnml:misc and 168 
unread in nnml:gnus-bug.  I'll get to them Any Day Now.  :-)

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